Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also, packages in the base system (i.e. those in base2_1.tgz) > should not require a package outside of the base system to work, because > otherwise the base system would be "broken". Whether this "requires" > is just Depends or both Depends and Recommends I don't know (if you are > going to write a dependency checker for that, you may try both and see > what happens, there are not many packages in the base system).
I think base packages should be allowed to recommend non-base packages. The base is for bootstrapping. If you get far enough to run dselect it should be ok to recommend a more complete installation. [However, the priority issue would still hold.] -- Raul
