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Re: ppp & ppp-pam



On Thu, Dec 18, 1997 at 12:17:43AM +0000, Philip Hands wrote:
> This being the case I thought I'd produce two packages, ppp & ppp-pam.
> 
> ppp will contain the current setup, compiled without PAM support, and ppp-pam 
> will contain just /usr/bin/pppd, and have preinst/postrm to handle diverting 
> ppp's pppd.
> 
> ppp will have:
>  Recommends: ppp-pam

If I recall correct, Recommends means you have to override dselect
by pressing Q to leave the dependencies screen; for new users,
they will end up installing ppp-pam just to shut up dselect.
Suggests might be better (it is more friendly in dselect).


Hamish
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