Bug#235525: debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Relax priority relations between packages (Policy 2.5)
On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 01:51:36 +0100, Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de> said:
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 12:11:51AM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
>> `standard' These packages provide a reasonably small but not too
>> limited character-mode system. This is what will be installed by
>> default if the user doesn't select anything else. It doesn't
>> include many large applications.
>>
>> How will you implement that once you remove the requirement of
>> standard to be self-contained ?
> You install the dependencies from extra if packages depend on them.
And end up installing everything, since the dependencies are
no longer self sufficient at each level, and now we have dependency
chains pulling in every subsystem under the sun for a standard
install?
The problem is not that we can automatically install even the
longest dependency chains -- the problem is that priority boundaries
would no longer sever the longest of the dependency chains.
manoj
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"We hold that each man is the best judge of his own interest." John
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Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/>
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