Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 05:17:19PM -0600, Matthew Dempsky wrote: >> It seems like the common case for wanting to install a kernel module >> source package is to build the module and then install it on the same >> box. Since the *-source package doesn't really depend on *-utils, why >> not add a Recommends line? > >> For example, ndiswrapper-source would Recommend ndiswrapper-util, >> while ndiswrapper-module-* would Depend on ndiswrapper-util still. >> (Similarly for alsa-*, and any other modules.) > > The build system may not be the same as the system where the package will be > installed, or one may be a chroot of the other, in which case this is > needless overhead.
Hence the Recommends instead of Depends. > There is nothing in the -source package that actually requires (or should > recommend) the -utils package. Sure, nothing requires the -utils package, but does the fact that the package it generates depends on -utils not mean the -source package should recommend it? > A much better fix here is for people to get over the fact that dpkg > isn't apt. Am I confusing them some how? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
