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Re: net-tools future



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On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 02:10:40PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote:
>munin uses netstat only in the netstat plugin. I've now added a 
>suggests (in svn) on the assumption that netstat is a rather common 
>plugin. We dont want to suggest asterisk just because there is a plugin 
>to monitor it :)

Why not?

The purpose of "Suggests:" is exactly to declare non-important 
relationship. From Policy 7.2:

> This is used to declare that one package may be more useful with one 
> or more others.  Using this field tells the packaging system and the 
> user that the listed packages are related to this one and can perhaps 
> enhance its usefulness, but that installing this one without them is 
> perfectly reasonable.



Kind regards,

  - Jonas

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