On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 05:17:19PM -0600, Matthew Dempsky wrote: > It seems like the common case for wanting to install a kernel module > source package is to build the module and then install it on the same > box. Since the *-source package doesn't really depend on *-utils, why > not add a Recommends line? > For example, ndiswrapper-source would Recommend ndiswrapper-util, > while ndiswrapper-module-* would Depend on ndiswrapper-util still. > (Similarly for alsa-*, and any other modules.) The build system may not be the same as the system where the package will be installed, or one may be a chroot of the other, in which case this is needless overhead. There is nothing in the -source package that actually requires (or should recommend) the -utils package. A much better fix here is for people to get over the fact that dpkg isn't apt. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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