Re: depends or recomends on the eduction-packages
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On 23-06-2005 13:28, Finn-Arne Johansen wrote:
> 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 ?
Don't think so. I get it now. :-)
- Jonas
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