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Re: the Recommends control field (was: dselect survey)



Ben Burton wrote:
> > 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.

A correct way to add reverse dependencies in such a case, if you want
to do so, is to OR them or depend on a virtual package.

-- 
see shy jo

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