On Sat, 24 Oct 2009, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le vendredi 23 octobre 2009 à 14:25 -0700, Don Armstrong a écrit : > > 3: Specifically, where Package A Depends on (B=1), and Package B > > Depends on A; A and B are from the same source, B is architecture > > independent, and does not require configuration. > > In the general case, B doesn’t need to depend on A. So this is not a > problem for that many packages.
Generally speaking, A tends to be necessary for B "to provide a significant amount of functionality". However, I agree that in almost all cases (including this case) it seems silly for any other package to depend on B or for users to install B directly. I actually suggested that perl-modules recommend perl, but that was rejected for the reason that perl-modules doesn't do anything useful without perl. Don Armstrong -- Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. -- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org