Re: Recommending packages via virtual package

2020-04-15 Thread Markus Frosch
On Wed, 2020-04-15 at 01:07 +0200, David Kalnischkies wrote: > Frankly, I was just honest as this thread-style annoys the heck out of me, > but I guess I could have worded that a bit differently to make more obvious > what I mean. So, let me explain where my anger comes from: > > You started with:

Re: Recommending packages via virtual package

2020-04-14 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 04:45:55PM +0200, Markus Frosch wrote: > > I would hence ask you to explain a bit better why you think APT is wrong > > and provide an example which actually shows these characteristics. > > Otherwise I will apparently be a tiny bit annoyed by this thread. > > Why so passiv

Re: Recommending packages via virtual package

2020-04-14 Thread Markus Frosch
On Tue, 2020-04-14 at 15:19 +0200, David Kalnischkies wrote: > Lets ignore for the moment that wordpress actually doesn't have the > recommends line which is the TOPIC OF THE THREAD, but has instead a > "Depends: apache2 | httpd" among other things (← hint hint): > > $ apt install wordpress nginx

Re: Recommending packages via virtual package

2020-04-14 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 10:26:54AM +0200, Markus Frosch wrote: > Apparently this no longer works. When I install a package like nginx > and then a package recommending a web server, APT will still try to > install apache2. > > > apt install -y nginx > > apt install wordpress Lets ignore for the m

Re: Recommending packages via virtual package

2020-04-14 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 14.04.20 um 11:49 schrieb Michael Biebl: > Am 14.04.20 um 10:26 schrieb Markus Frosch: > >> What are your thoughts on that? Is there any other thread >> discussing this? The current bugs for apt touching on virtual >> package don't really mean this behavior. > > I can not reproduce your proble

Re: Recommending packages via virtual package

2020-04-14 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 14.04.20 um 10:26 schrieb Markus Frosch: > What are your thoughts on that? Is there any other thread > discussing this? The current bugs for apt touching on virtual > package don't really mean this behavior. I can not reproduce your problem in a sid chroot. When nginx (nginx-full to be precise

Recommending packages via virtual package

2020-04-14 Thread Markus Frosch
Hey all, not sure if this has been discussed elsewhere, but I recently noticed a change in APTs lookup for Recommends. Maybe also for other dependencies. Many packages recommend a webserver like this: > Recommends: apache2 | httpd Apparently this no longer works. When I install a package like ng