Bug#234955: Apache2-common depencies inadequate
On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 10:43:07PM +0000, Thom May wrote:
> > > Oh, yeah. what a fantastic argument. I don't want it, and it's slightly
> > > broken, so let's rip it out totally rather than fix it.
> >
> > Well, that's actually _not_ the OP's argument. Dependencies, in my very humble
> > understanding, express that certain parts of the system need other parts
> > to operate. I really don't see why apache2-common needs ssl-cert to operate
> > (esp. considering that, according to your own comments it doesn't even
> > depend on any worker module -- hey, we won't be able to run apache2, but we'll
> > do it encrypted :-) Why not make it a 'suggests'?
> >
> Well, when I get round to fixing the config file to use the generated cert,
> and ssl-cert to not suck, I'd prefer for encryption to work out of the box.
> I might ask if the installee wants to create an ssl cert tho.
> -T
But doesn't that mean that one can not install apache2 without ssl (which might
not be wanted or even allowed in certain situations)?
RalfD
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