Re: Dependencies and debconf configuration
"Julien Valroff" <julien@kirya.net> wrote in message
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Le dimanche 25 septembre 2005 à 12:38 +0200, Reinhard Tartler a écrit :
On 9/25/05, Julien Valroff <julien@kirya.net> wrote:
> But installing a theme without installing the bootsplash utilities is
> then possible, and totally useless. Don't you think this can mislead
> users?
Tell them, they rather want bootspash than the theme ;)
You are 100% right!
I will do it this way.
Many thanks for all your answers.
You could have the theme reccomend bootsplash. Reccomends need not be
installed first. They state that the package can be installed without the
reccomendations, but will likely not be useful without them.
Cyclical Dependencies always cause problems. Heck I'm wondering how dpkg
allows any of the packages to be installed, because they depend on the pne
which is not installed.
May I suggest this as a rule of thumb for dependencies:
It is a depencency if:
* It is required in the prinst, postinst, prerm etc.
* If it is an interpreter needed for running the program (java, python,
perl, etc.)
Also If the package is a main package, it may depend on the data packages,
Data packages should not depend on the main package, but should reccomend
it.
Otherwise it is probably a reccomends.
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