Re: how to split packages
On Tuesday 19 Mar 2002 1:44 pm, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> > To avoid it, if it is possible, it could be done this way:
> >
> > "proggie-core" contains the core material, and
> > "proggie" contains the extra programs, and depend on "proggie-core"
>
> If you are using Depends instead of Recommends or Suggests, there is
> usually no point in splitting the package at all.
Not necessarily e.g.:
nethack could be split into nethack-common, nethack and qtnethack, which
would both depend on nethack-common.
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