Re: Another take on package relationship substvars
On Thu, 2024-02-22 at 20:52 +0100, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:
>
> While I like the idea in general, I wonder how I could override these
> automatic additions.
> I think there are some packages that even demote `${shlibs:Depends}`
> to Recommends.
>
Absolutely. collectd for example - otherwise you would install *all*
plugin dependencies with collectd, which would be a big waste of space.
The other option would be to make one packe per plugin as redhat does,
but do we really want 20 packages with a single file?
Bernd
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