Simon McVittie wrote: > Or are you saying > that things with special::auto-inst-parts should never have even a weakened > dependency on the package of which they're an implementation detail?
Yes. (Well, a Suggests is okay.) > In situations where the data and the engine have a many-to-many relationship > (the various Doom engines, each of which can play Doom, Doom II, FreeDoom or > FreeDM), I agree that that Recommends might be too strong. That's why I care.[1] It seems unlikely that another game is going to start using openarena's data without the engine but still it is nice to leave the possibility open. Regards, Jonathan [1] The package now called suckless-tools used to Recommends: dwm, since its raison d'être was to provide basic functionality for that window manager. This meant: - for dwm users, not much. APT's "markauto" functionality already ensured that dwm-tools would be uninstalled once dwm is removed. - for xmonad users, installing dwm-tools for dmenu would pull in an extra window manager. (Side note: suckless-tools is plenty of fun on its own anyway.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110321191822.GA4051@elie
