Indirect dependencies
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On 25 Apr 1998, James Troup wrote:
> Apparently indirect dependencies are not allowed.
I think it's time to talk about indirect dependencies.
Some examples:
pkg-order depends on perl.
perl pre-depends on perl-base.
perl-base pre-depends on libc6.
Does this mean pkg-order should really depend on libc6?
I don't think so. Another example:
lintian depends on file.
file depends on libc6.
Does lintian have to depend on libc6? I don't think so. As long as one
version of the file package is installed and working, we don't care about
which shared libc is it linked against.
What does this mean? Well, it just means that indirect dependencies do
really *exist* and not in all cases it is a good thing for them to become
direct dependencies.
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