Re: the Recommends control field (was: dselect survey)
Just a point that has not yet been raised regarding -data reciprocal
dependencies:
> kdeedu-data
> koffice-data
In some cases (such as the examples above) the -data package is used by
many smaller packages, not just one. Both koffice and kdeedu are empty
metapackages that depend on several smaller applications, most of which
require these common -data packages. If reverse dependencies were
added, then (for instance) installing kword would result in having to
install all of koffice.
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