On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 02:09:37PM +1100, Brian May wrote: > >>>>> "Marc" == Marc Haber <debian-devel.lists.debian.org@marc-haber.de> writes: > Seems a horrible idea. > In the pre/postinst, this is a bad idea, for all the reasons you describe. But "dynamic dependencies" which change based on your current configuration, are a really good idea. This subject came up in the discussion of dpkg-dev-el a little while back. Imagine if we had, for dpkg-dev Reccomends: (dpkg-dev-el IF emacs-common) or some similar synatax. This allows dpkg/apt to calculate the dependencies, but still allows for the kind of flexibility you need. For the kernel, too many people don't use make-kpkg for this to work. But for other packages, it could provide a real benifit. sam th sam@uchicago.edu http://www.abisource.com/~sam/ GnuPG Key: http://www.abisource.com/~sam/key
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