James Vega <james...@debian.org> wrote:
[...]
> 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.
Hello,
these data packages usually are leaf packages with just a single
dependency. foo depends on foo-data, and everything requiring
foo-functionality depends on directly on foo.
ametz...@argenau:~$ grep-available -FDepends -sPackage perl-modules | wc
93 186 2275
I think depending on perl-modules is currently best practice,
especially 'perl-modules >= x | libfoo-perl' for dependencies on
functionality that was integrated into perl-modules at some point of
time.
I am not totally sure this is a significant difference though, many of
the packages with a dependency on perl-modules will probably have at
least a indirect dependency (not only over perl-modules) on perl, too.
cu andreas
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