Re: Non-related 'Recommends' dependencies - bug or not?
Lennart Sorensen a écrit :
> On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 12:15:59AM +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote:
>> Thanks, you hinted me to discover it:
>>
>> $ aptitude why banshee synaptic
>> p banshee Recommends brasero
>> p brasero Recommends gnome-mount
>> p gnome-mount Depends libeel2-2.20
>> p libeel2-2.20 Recommends synaptic
>
> A library recommends synaptic? That just sesems downright stupid.
>
> That is not where I would have expected to see that dependancy. I guess
> it provides a widget that calls synaptic, so someone thought it would
> make sense to have synaptic installed even though many other widgets in
> the package might be perfectly useful with out it.
>
> I think at most synaptic deserves a suggests in that case.
>
I am absolutely not sure of myself, but I think this is due to the new
"missing plugins installation procedure" that launches synaptic to
install new packages if an adequate plugin is missing (but available).
I can be wrong, too.
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