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Re: Non-related 'Recommends' dependencies - bug or not?



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Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 09:57:13PM +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote:
>> Recently I've noticed that 'Recommends' chain for package 'banshee' leads to packages,
>> non-related with media-playing at all, for example, 'synaptic'. Then I filed the minor bug
>> [1].
>>
>> Bug was closed by maintainer with note "it is not a bug". Is he right?
> 
> Well I guess if the chain is:
> 
> banshee -> ... -> gnome -> synaptic, then I would say that's proper.
> 
> What is the chain to get there?
> 
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

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Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, Ukrainian C++ developer.
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