Bug#266078: The Bug report
On Tuesday 17 August 2004 14:33, you wrote:
> * Bernd Donner [Tue, 17 Aug 2004 10:11:20 +0200]:
> > Sorry, some garbage remained at the end of the original posting.
> >
> > The package depends on libbluetooth1 and on libgnokii2. But kaddressbook
> > can be usefull without having bluetooth or a nokia handy.
>
> and you can have libbluetooth1 and libgnokii2 installed and your
> system will run fine.
>
> I mean, is there a reason (apart from libgnokii2 wasting ~1Mb of
> space!) to not allow them to be installed? They just depend on libc6,
> so it's not like they pull anything to be installed.
>
> thanks,
No there is no other reason. I just cannot imagine that these dependencies
comply with the debian policy. I quote from
http://people.debian.org/~jaldhar/make_package2.html : "Use this if your
program absolutely will not run unless a particular package is present."
Furthermore is still consider wasting 1MB of disk space quite a lot. If every
package would have such a behavior this would be some 300MB. Currently I'm
compiling kdepim from deb-src to see wether there are any difficulties in
creating an kaddressbook as I have proposed before.
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