Hi, On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 08:21:35PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > An idea I have been harboring for quite some time, and which bears some > (though not very much) relevance to this thread, is a reverse > dependency. The idea is this: > Package "wine" has wine. > Package "kde" has kde. > Package "wine-kde" has the wine integration into kde. This package > reverse depends on "kde" and "wine", which means that if both "kde" and > "Wine" are installed, then "wine-kde" is automatically installed too. > The idea is that it is installing kde and wine that triggers the > installation of "wine-kde". > > To understand why this is useful, consider webmin. If we could make > webmin-samba reverse depend on samba and webmin, no one would ever have > to figure out whether there are any more useful webmin modules they can > install for their system. It would all be automatically done by > aptitude. Merely installing samba on a system where webmin is installed > will bring webmin-samba in as well, without making samba depend on > webmin or vice versa.
I don't think reverse-depends would be fine in such cases. One may want to use webmin to configure something but not to configure samba. Hence, I think reverse-recommends would be much better. Fortunately, reverse-recommends already "exist"; they are implemented with the "enhances:" header. Unfortunately, as far as I know, no tool implements them yet... Cheers, Nicolas PS: please respect my MFT header: I read this list and need no CC. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
