Katola2: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 10:59:55PM +0700, Ста Деюс wrote: > > Доброго времени суток, KatolaZ. > > > > Спасибо за ответ, Wed, 14 Jan 2015 10:52:39 +0000, вы писали: > > > Well, unfortunately there is currently no clear-cut about > > > Recommends. In most of the cases a package will work fine 99.99% of > > > the times even if you don't have the Recommends installed (as in the > > > case of the gdbserver recommended by gdb), in some of the cases a > > > Recommend is simply unnecessary (like exim4 recommended by mutt) but > > > in many other cases Recommends include "standard" package > > > associations, which would make your package loose some > > > important/typical functionalities if not installed (like in the case > > > of ghostscript recommended by gimp)... > > Then may the recommendations should be better separeted/termed. -- So > > that in primer case of your example, it should stand as 'recommends' > > while the last one -- 'depends'. > Yes, but it has never been like that, and never will be. The reason is > that the choice of what is necessary, recommended or just ancillary > for a package to run is ultimately left to the package > maintainer. This is not totally wrong, but allows the introduction of > dependencies which some other user/maintainer might think should not > be there by default.
I have an example: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=618806 The maintainer introduced a dependance just because he want the init script to be run after udev, and he was ignorant to case when no udev is installed. Applying: $ diff control* 20c20 < lsb-base (>= 3.0-9), linux-sound-base (>= 1.0.15-1) --- > lsb-base (>= 3.0-9), linux-sound-base (>= 1.0.15-1), udev $ diff init* 7c7 < # Required-Start: $remote_fs --- > # Required-Start: $remote_fs udev And rebuilding the package, solved my direct needs. As I see it, that was an unnessesary dependancy. BTW it was intruduced by how the init-system was build. Regards, /Karl Hammar ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Aspö Data Lilla Aspö 148 S-742 94 Östhammar Sweden +46 173 140 57 _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
