Re: Bug#88307: Netbase needs to not depend on not-necessarily-needed packages.
<Everything snipped since I do not refer directly to anything said in
the referenced article>
I understand that the unstable netbase package depends on all packages
that have been split from the potato netbase package. This is the
usual behavior in Debian when a package gets split and IMO the only
way to ensure that updates go well.
In the long run, this is a case of what I have been observing in the
past quite a few times: The need for "dynamic dependencies". A package
should be able to decide in pre/postinst which packages should be
pulled in too. This way, netbase could check whether a 2.0, 2.2, or
2.4 kernel is installed and then decide whether to pull ipfwadm,
ipchains or iptables. No need to have all three of them installed.
Greetings
Marc
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