Re: open policy topics
On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Christian Schwarz wrote:
> 2. Pre-Depends and Essentials
>
> -> People seem to agree that Essential packages always have to use
> Pre-Depends instead of Depends. There may be single exceptions--but these
> have to be approved by debian-devel.
Just to let you all know, APT implicitly makes all dependencies of
essential packages 'Immediate Configure' and makes all essential packages
themselves also Immediate Configure. Also, all Immediate Configure
packages implicitly have their dependancies promoted to Pre-Depends.
This results in a much safer system than simply making everything
pre-depends only does.
Has anyone checked how many dselect methods support predepends ordering?
Making it policy if ftp and mounted don't support predepends ordering
would be a bad thing.
> 21. dependency policy:
> - do we allow/disallow indirect dependencies?
> - conflict loops depreciated?
I would add pre-depends loops [strictly forbidden] and since dependencies
can be converted to predepends they are bad too.
Jason
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