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Re: python-minimal




"Steve Langasek" <vorlon@debian.org> wrote in message [🔎] 20060430041219.GA14628@mauritius.dodds.net">news:[🔎] 20060430041219.GA14628@mauritius.dodds.net...
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 09:00:53PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
The alsa-utils package depends on python-minimal.
As a result, I must now have two versions of python installed.  That's
a bug.
alsa-utils should depend on "python | python-minimal", or perhaps the
python packages should Provide python-minimal.
Does this seem right?

Er... alsa-utils should be depending on python, *not* on python-minimal at
all. The previous discussion of this package was that python-minimal exists
only for the possibility of use as an Essential: yes package, should never
be installed without python, and should not be used as a dependency by other
packages.

To clarify, AIUI Python-minimal should never be installed without python, unless install of only python-minimal is explicitly requested by the user. This is to avoid having to include full python on an embeded Debian, while minimizing cases where a user is surprised by missing python libraries.



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