Something that came up on debian-devel: It may well be a good idea to tweak the Recommends lines of cross-built packages for Emdebian so that once aptitude becomes available, users can retain a sane dependency tree without having to always alias aptitude=aptitude -R Most Debian package maintainers would (currently) consider an Emdebian cross-build to be an unusual installation (which is when Debian Policy 7.2 says a Recommends: can be expected to be omitted) and various Recommends: lines may well bring in packages that don't really fit with the target device. I'm thinking particularly of language-bindings, alternative backend storage packages or other optional components. Maybe downgrade Recommends to Suggests unless there is a clear reason to retain it? This is probably a more fine-grained approach than either including the alias in the default environment or confusing users by forcing a cross-built aptitude to treat -R as the default instead of -r. -R, --without-recommends -r, --with-recommends http://www.annodex.net/cgi-bin/man/man2html?aptitude+8 man aptitude -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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