Re: Bug#287949: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#287949: ndiswrapper-modules depends on ndiswrapper-utils; so should ndiswrapper-source)
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 11:45:13AM +0100, Thomas Hood wrote:
> This is _not_ an effective workaround. Suppose I install foo-source and
> generate foo-modules from it, then remove foo-source. (This
> is something we do not want to prohibit.) I can now remove foo-base and I
> am back in the situation that caused the problem for you.
Not if foo-modules also depends on foo-base and foo-modules is installed.
The guy is worried about wanting to build foo-modules and not ever install it,
which is a valid use case but leaves the people who want to actually instal
it in a tough situation.
You could have foo-source which depends on foo-source-only and foo-base.
foo-source-only generates foo-modules which also depends on foo-base.
Builders-only could install foo-source-only
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