On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 03:22:34PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > 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.
I don't see how perl-modules is that much different than the various arch-independent data packages which provide little to no functionality on their own but are required by another arch-dependent package. Many of those either Recommend the relevant package or declare no relationship at all. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <james...@debian.org>
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