Re: Bug#88307: Netbase needs to not depend on not-necessarily-needed packages.

[Brian May <bam@debian.org>]

>>>>> "Alexander" == Alexander Hvostov <vulture@aoi.dyndns.org> writes:

    Alexander> Alternatively, these "dynamic dependencies" could
    Alexander> possibly be accomplished by having arbitrary code in
    Alexander> the Packages file that determines these dynamic

Somebody else posted a more specific version:

Depends: packagea (if packageb)

and I was thinking, yes, you could do this with kernel packages too.
However, if the user manually installs the kernel, he/she must
manually worry about these dependencies.

(not sure I like the exact syntax, but that is a minor point).

    Alexander> dependencies. Of course, this would compound an already
    Alexander> aggravating problem -- the fact that the Packages file
    Alexander> is _way_ too big already.

I really hate the idea of Packages file altogether. Only, I can't
think of anything better (except splitting out the descriptions, as in
other thread), so I can't really proposed that we fix it... ;-)
-- 
Brian May <bam@debian.org>