On 24/02/24 11:26, Bernd Zeimetz wrote:
On Thu, 2024-02-22 at 20:52 +0100, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote: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?
Yes, please. So that installing package collectd-foo ensures that all the required dependencies are installed, instead of having to hunt them down (a task better left to the package maintainers rather than the end users).
PS: I volunteer to do the splitting. Regards, -- Gioele Barabucci