* Wichert Akkerman (wichert@cistron.nl) wrote:
>
> And if you just use apt-get to do an upgrade you will horribly break
> upgrades since split packages use Recommends and those won't
> be installed automatically. I've seen way too many complaints
> about that already.
I find this to be a problem with how packages are split. I'm
trying to understand why something like this wouldn't make
more sense:
orig_package->virt_package(with same name)->(depends)new_package1
\->(depends)new_package2
If a package is split then the old package provided the
functionality (probably) of both new packages, yet only
one of them is installed and the other is just 'Recommended'?
I'm all for splitting packages where it makes sense to, but
effectively removing packages/functionality from my system
without explicitly saying so is evil..
Stephen
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