Bug#543256: Make installing recommends optional
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:19:06 +0200, Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> wrote:
>I've been wondering whether we don't need a new field to express such
>relationships. Something like "Soft-Depends:". That would be treated as
>depends, but can be unselected manually or uninstalled later if a user
>really, really wants to.
If there are few enough packages needing an "Almost-Always-Depends:"
field, could this be handled by a dummy package in the Depends: list?
Something like "Depends: busybox-dummy | busybox" where busybox-dummy
would not normally be available (and thus skipped) unless proper magic
was invoked. Or do I misunderstand packaging and installation? --Don
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