Re: PROPOSAL - REFORMULATED - Create alternative Packages files for each section
On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 09:33:01AM +1000, Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@debian.org> was heard to say:
> 1) The ftp-master scripts include in each sectional Packages file all
> dependent packages.
>
> This sucks because it is massive redundancy, but does at least leave the
> user with no broken dependencies. I would also imagine that no single
> Packages file is going to be less than about a quarter the size of the
> current one this way, because we tend to have very incestuous dependency
> paths, especially once you include Recommends: and Suggests:. I think you'd
> have to include at least Recommends: to ensure that things like aptitude
> continued to work correctly.
If your package set isn't closed under Recommends, aptitude will
continue to work just fine -- but it won't install the missing
Recommended packages, so anything that requires them probably won't work :).
Daniel
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