Re: Bug#33430: Release-critical Bugreport for February 16, 1999

[Steve McIntyre <stevem@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Adam Di Carlo writes:
>On Wed, 17 Feb 1999 12:18:28 +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer
>
>> The current check of the pre-defined selections does not use
>> Recommends: and hence does not check it. Because it is intended to
>> be used standalone, and NOT to be supplemented with choices from
>> dselect. You should just (this is documented) go to Install,
>> skipping Select.
>
>Well, optimally, the master2files stuff *should* in fact check
>depends.  Sure, the user may skip the 'Select' step in dselect, but
>you can be sure they'll run that step at some later point.
>
>I would suggest, for your sanity, you start using pkg-order to help
>you check dependancies/recommends?  Would that work?

I've thought about adding this for slink_cd before, especially useful for
people who may want to play with the slink1.useful list to move things
around. I'll see if I can find time to play with this today (Friday).

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