Re: kydpdict relationships

[Marvin Renich <mrvn@renich.org>]

* Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> [070724 21:05]:
>         If we are going to transition to installing Recommends by
>  default in lenny, I would say go with the Recommends, since it caters
>  to more users.
> 
>         Or else, use Depends, but that makes the system less efficient
>  for those of our users who decide they want a partially  proprietary
>  solution (which we promise to support as well, as I recall).
> 
> > But we dont care about those non-free files, as they wont ever end up
> > in a thing where you could add some relation in your package control
> > data.
> 
>         Sure, but the proprietary .deb could use Enhances :). If ever
>  the packaging system frontends decide to support that, it could still
>  be useful.
> 
>         manoj

Why not

Depends: free-dictionary | any-dictionary

and have all (free and non-free) dictionaries Provides: any-dictionary?

...Marvin