Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 5

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:

> Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> writes:
>
>> Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> wrote:
>>
>>> * Frank Küster (frank@debian.org) [060726 14:49]:
>>>> What about using Suggests instead of "Depends-for-being-useful"?
>>>
>>> Suggests is *way* weaker. 
>>
>> Sorry, I meant Recommends.
>>
>>> The Needs would trigger automatic installation
>>> with any tool. Actually, if
>>> A->B (depends), B->C(depends), and C->B(Needs), then A won't be
>>> configured until both B and C are installed.
>>
>> That's a clever idea.  However, so far nobody has provided any
>> information where this would be actually needed, except a general
>> "people might install foo-data and wonder why no program foo is
>> provided" or a "the knowing already know".  Is it really worth the
>> effort? 
>>
>> Regards, Frank
>
> Joey said debconf requires it circular dependency.

Yes, that's what I meant with "the knowing already know".  He asserted
that, but he did not yet tell us why, or where we could read why. 

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)