Re: How to detect if inside a buildd chroot
Am Dienstag, den 25.09.2007, 12:23 +0200 schrieb Simon Richter:
> Hi,
>
> Sebastian Dröge wrote:
>
> >> Would it make sense to demote the dependency on the hal daemon to a
> >> Recommends (after all, the hal "client" library should deal with the
> >> daemon not running anyway)?
>
> > gnome-mount depends on hal as it doesn't work at all without hal.
>
> Well, gnome-mount should never be installed on an autobuilder IMO.
>
> > libnautilus-burn should depend on gnome-mount as it can't do some stuff
> > if gnome-mount is not available. If this is a recommends only, people
> > that don't install recommends have a unusable library lying around.
>
> That sounds like "recommends", TBH. The fact that apt used to not
> install Recommends by default has led to way too stringent
> relationships; I don't see a problem with packages that are largely
> unusable without a recommended package as long as they handle the
> situation gracefully.
Ok, but even if it is recommends, as apt install recommends by default
won't it be installed in the buildd chroots too?
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