Re: depends or recomends on the eduction-packages
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On 22-06-2005 22:15, Finn-Arne Johansen wrote:
> Back in the woody days, we used to have the education-packages depend
> upon the various packages we wanted to include in the installation.
> Then, when we started to release our packages into the sarge repository,
> and there were depends, these depends blocked other packages from
> entering testing, because of conflicts.
> Therefor, Joey did a bit of rewriting, so that we recomended other
> packages, and that solved the conflicts.
> Now, since sarge is stable, there wont be new packages added or removed,
> and also since our new packages wont go into sarge, we can use depends
> instead of recommends, and that may solve some of the trouble with
> upgrades. Maybe not from woody installations, but for those who are
> putting prerelease of Sarge into production in a couple of months
> without proper support.
Is this a problem when using aptitude?
If so, is the reason perhaps that the aptitude is configured to not
respect "recommends"? If so, upgrade instructions could say to use
"aptitude --with-recommends" to override local preference while upgrading.
- Jonas
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