On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 06:43:51PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > I need a clarification because I am confused. If I have a script that > uses awk do I need the package to "Depends: awk"? Or is awk like > basename where we are able to assume it is on the system without any > explicit dependencies? > > I see that many packages do "Depends: awk". But awk is an alternative > and mawk is "Priority: required" so I would not think so. But gawk > provides awk and is "Priority: optional" but with a higher alternative > priority too and so that "required" mawk is almost never used. (I > always install gawk as awk for its better features.) > > If the package used gawk specific features then the decision would be > easy. It would need to depend upon gawk. But it only uses basic awk > features and so any of the alternatives is sufficient. > > Thanks for you knowledge in this.
I suspect that it is not necessary: $ apt-cache show mawk |grep "Provides\|Priority" Priority: required Provides: awk -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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