Em Sex, 2005-06-24 às 23:57 +0200, Ondrej Sury escreveu: > One thing is very clear: > > 1. this is (a sort of) abuse of Depends field Yes. > 2. we need reverse Suggest/Recommends field, ie. something like > Recommends-Uninstall: foo-data No, all we need is a better handling of what we have today in our package managers (read APT frontends). A -data package should not really be presented to the user as something that might add functionality to his system, but simply as a 'helper package' for another one. Having a separate 'data' section and telling package managers to 'second-class' libs, data and some other fields might be a good idea. > (well, same can be applied to -doc, -common, etc.) doc is a different problem IMO, it does provide functionality, even on systems which do not have 'foo' installed. You might want to take a look at apache's docs from your workstation while working on a server over ssh and there are many other examples of use for the doc case. See ya, -- kov@debian.org: Gustavo Noronha <http://people.debian.org/~kov> Debian: <http://www.debian.org> * <http://www.debian-br.org>
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