Two weeks later, restarting the thread... On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 10:16:54PM -0500, Josh Metzler wrote: > I don't seem to understand. The only reason I can think of to install myspell > is because some package (openoffice.org, mozilla-mailnews, etc.) recommended > it. If this is the case, then myspell doesn't need to recommend such a > package. It isn't very often that I pick a library to install, and then try > to figure out what packages I can install to use it. I agree with you on the fact that it is very rare to first install a library and then installing an application which use it. However, for highly specialised libraries (if we could consider myspell-* as libraries) it is a bit different. For example if you heard of a software called Sane to be able to use your scanner under Linux, you may first install libsane and then find an application which use it. That's why libsane recommends sane-utils. There is a lot of example like that in Debian, for example liblircclient0 suggests lirc, libgphoto2-2 suggests gphoto2, libgpmg1 suggests gpm, libavifile-0.7c102 suggests almost avifile-*. And it is not a systematic search, I think there is a lot more examples like that ones. I consider myspell belong to this family, that is to say that somebody could have heard to myspell only. When he install the package, he would be happy if apt suggests him to install the corresponding applications. However, contrarily to what Rene proposed, and based on the examples above, I think that Suggests is more appropriate than Recommends. But that's my personal opinion, Recommends could also fit. Cheers, Aurelien -- .''`. Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux developer | Electrical Engineering Student `. `' aurel32@debian.org | aurelien@aurel32.net `- people.debian.org/~aurel32 | www.aurel32.net
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