Re: Uninstallable packages in woody
Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp> writes:
> tb@becket.net (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) immo vero scripsit:
>
> > Specifically what I want is:
> >
> > Conform to the rule that "optional" packages may not conflict.
> >
> > It is easy to fix: move offending packages into extra.
>
> Moving the offending packages to extra may require some other
> packages moving to extra, requiring some other to move to
> extra, and so on.
Yes, but usually not. Most packages are never depended on by
anything. And in the cases that I ran across, this was in fact the
case.
Sometimes actual hard thought may be required.
Still, we should either conform to this policy rule, or drop the rule.
Thomas
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