Re: Unmet dependencies in slink
Robert Donn <squirk@ihug.co.nz> writes:
> If developers are erroneously using Recommends: like this, then I think that
> we need something between Recommends: and Suggests: - something that means
> what many are using Recommends: for now.
Adding a new kind of positive relationship only makes sense if its
behavior is different from the other relationships.
> Then the items would be something like: (example situation)
> Depends: needs these things to work (properly) at all.
> Recommends: you need this for it to be much use, or have it provided over
> the network
> Suggests: a lot of the extension scripts use this package
> Considers: this is another html to postscript conversion tool
Depends is a required relationship that dpkg will enforce. Recommends
is a fairly strong relationship that is difficult to override with
dselect. Suggests is a weak relationship that is easy to override
with dselect. What behavior would Considers have?
Guy
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