Re: Can somebody sponsor dialign-t
Hi again!
On Nov 14, 2007 12:55 PM, Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de> wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Charles Plessy wrote:
>
> > although I do not expect users to decide to install one without the
> > other. But now I wonder if this fits the renewed interpretation of what
> > Recommends: means, now that front-ends to dpkg install them by default.
>
>
> This is exactly what you want. While users might install dialign-t-data
> perfectly without breaking there system or the functionality of dialign-t-data
> (which is prividing data for dialign-t ... the user might run a local
> copy for whatever reason), it is _Recommended_ to install dialign-t as
> well which is reasonably done by apt-get by default.
That is right.
> > I think that I would only Suggest: dialign-t, to avoir a relationship
> > which would be too circular.
>
> No. Circular _Depends_ should be avioded. I never heard that
> circular _Recommends_ would cause any problem. It just makes sense in
> most use cases to not install dialign-t-data without dialign-t - so it
> is _Recommended_.
Exactly.
> > Or how about: "This package contain the score matrices and probability
> > distribution files that DIALIGN-T needs to align peptidic and nucleic
> > sequences."
>
> I prefer this one.
So we change to this one :-)
> > Thanks a lot for the help ! I am running out of time today to apply the
> > changes...
>
> But there is so much time left for today - I think Nelson will not even
> had Lunch today. ;-))
Now I am back from lunch ;-)
Best regards,
Nelson
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