Hi! On Tue, 2024-11-05 at 17:35:59 -0600, Aaron Rainbolt wrote: > With all this in mind, I'd like to call some attention to a feature > request made by Patrick Schleizer some time ago, whom I've copied on > this email. The feature request suggests the addition of a new field to > Debian's binary dependency relationship fields, "Weak-Depends".[4] In > Patrick's own words, Weak-Depends "[d]eclares a weak dependency. Most > users of this package may benefit from installing packages listed in > this field, but can have reasonable functionality without them." The > exact way in which this would be implemented is that Weak-Depends > packages would get installed when using `apt install > --no-install-recommends package`, but any package listed there could be > removed without removing the package which referenced the Weak-Depends.
> [4]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=942303 Given the discussion in this thread, and the feedback on such potential new field, which matched my own take, I'll be closing the above bug report, which I had left open in case there was some other very compelling reason to support it or wide agreement this was desirable. Thanks, Guillem
