Re: depends or recomends on the eduction-packages
Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> 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.
Will it force replacement if there is a conflict with already installed
packages ?
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Finn-Arne Johansen
faj@bzz.no http://bzz.no/
Debian-edu developer and PreRelease Manager
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