On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 10:01:18AM +0200, Georges Mariano wrote: > My question is : is there any way to avoid duplicating dependencies > already stated by packages already installed. Yes, it is possible, but not reccomended. This question raised up some time ago on the debian-mentors ML (please look for it on the ML archive) and the answer was that a package should declare dependencies on all packages it need, except essential packages obviously. The reason is for easyness of amministration, mainly because you can guarantee the consistency of the dependencies only for the subset of package you maintain (which is the case for ocaml and ocaml-base maintained by Sven, but this is a general consideration ...). Consider this as a safety choice. Moreover how does this choice cause problems? Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli - undergraduate student of CS @ Univ. Bologna, Italy zack@cs.unibo.it | ICQ# 33538863 | http://www.cs.unibo.it/~zacchiro "I know you believe you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant!" -- G.Romney
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