Hello!On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 5:22 PM, Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com> wrote:
Hi. I wonder if you could comment on an idea related to libcolord2 and colord in Debian. As you can see in <URL: https://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/2014/07/msg00061.html >, at the moment Debian Edu in Jessie fail to install. One of the causes is partly triggered by a relation between libcolord2 and colord. Would it be possible to reduce the relationship between libcolord2 and colord from recommends to suggests, to avoid pulling in colord by default when installing a package depending on libcolord2 via libgtk-3-0? Does it make sense?
I'm somewhat leary of reducing the strength of the dependency for a temporary installability problem; colord meets the requirement of “should be present on all but unusual configurations” when you've got libcolord2 installed.
Do you have other ideas how to best handle this installation problem?
Since this would seem to be both temporary (until you migrate to systemd) and fairly specific to Debian-Edu's particular installation method, does apt-install allow you to do the equivalent of a “apt install debian-edu-install colord-” to install debian-edu-install while explicitly denying the installation of colord? You could use that to work around the problem until systemd's bedded down.