Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> * Frank Küster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060726 14:49]: >>>> What about using Suggests instead of "Depends-for-being-useful"? >>> >>> Suggests is *way* weaker. >> >> Sorry, I meant Recommends. >> >>> The Needs would trigger automatic installation >>> with any tool. Actually, if >>> A->B (depends), B->C(depends), and C->B(Needs), then A won't be >>> configured until both B and C are installed. >> >> That's a clever idea. However, so far nobody has provided any >> information where this would be actually needed, except a general >> "people might install foo-data and wonder why no program foo is >> provided" or a "the knowing already know". Is it really worth the >> effort? >> >> Regards, Frank > > Joey said debconf requires it circular dependency.
Yes, that's what I meant with "the knowing already know". He asserted that, but he did not yet tell us why, or where we could read why. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
