Re: Problems with Quake and Quake-lib
On Tue, 31 Dec 1996, Joey Hess wrote:
> > 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.
>
Well, suggests is more appropriate, since dselect treats recommends
almost as strictly as depends. A notice in the description would also be
appropriate.
Luck,
Dwarf
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