Re: priorities and package relations

[Raul Miller <rdm@test.legislate.com>]

Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es> wrote:
> Also, packages in the base system (i.e. those in base2_1.tgz)
> should not require a package outside of the base system to work, because
> otherwise the base system would be "broken". Whether this "requires" 
> is just Depends or both Depends and Recommends I don't know (if you are
> going to write a dependency checker for that, you may try both and see
> what happens, there are not many packages in the base system).

I think base packages should be allowed to recommend non-base packages.

The base is for bootstrapping.  If you get far enough to run dselect
it should be ok to recommend a more complete installation.  [However,
the priority issue would still hold.]

-- 
Raul