Re: Spliting packages between pkg and pkg-data

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Ricardo Mones <mones@aic.uniovi.es> writes:
>                        | foo                  | foo-data
>   ---------------------+----------------------+-------------------------
>   foo needs foo-data   | Depends: foo-data    | Suggests: foo
>   ---------------------+----------------------+-------------------------
>   foo may use foo-data | Recommends: foo-data | Depends: foo
>   foo-data useless     |                      | Enhances: foo [*]
>   without foo          |                      |
>   ---------------------+----------------------+-------------------------
>   foo may use foo-data | Recommends: foo-data | Suggests: foo
>   foo-data useful      |                      | Enhances: foo [*]
>   without foo          |                      |
>
>   The Enhances would add an extra meaning to explain why foo-data
> package is either Depending or Suggesting foo, which in these cases is
> not the usual Depend meaning IMHO: the data doesn't really need
> anything to work :)

Sounds good. I thought you ment Enhances even with foo depending.

But this way is exatly how I have in mind. This way frontends can
offer the choise of installing foo-data when the user selects foo.

MfG
        Goswin