Re: Different suggests/recomends according to architecture

[Julien Valroff <julien@kirya.net>]

Hi Adeodato,

Le vendredi 31 octobre 2008 à 19:30 +0100, Adeodato Simó a écrit :
> * Julien Valroff [Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:53:43 +0100]:
> 
> > Hi,
> 
> > I am the maintainer of the ajaxterm package.
> 
> > I have been provided a patch to allow use of psyco in ajaxterm only if
> > available.
> 
> > I would like to ajaxterm to recommend or suggest this package, which is
> > only available for i386, whereas ajaxterm is an arch:all package.
> 
> > Is there any way to specify this?
> 
> > Should I leave psyco anyway, and rely on apt to not try and install it
> > on architectures where it is not available?
> 
> > Should I change my package to be arch:any (I guess no, just asking)?
> 
> I think Recommending or, particularly, Suggesting packages that don't
> exist in certain arches is ok for arch:all packages, the story being
> that nobody notices that it doesn't get installed.
> 
> If it was a Depends, and arch:all package would depend on "psyco |
> not+i386", which would pull in type-handling on all !i386 arches. There
> is no point at all in doing that for Recommends, though: you want psyco
> just not installed, not random crap pulled in. :-)

Thanks for your confirmation. I have just tried it on a local packages
archive, and it seems to work ok with aptitude (--with-recommends).

Cheers,
Julien