Re: Annoying package dependence concept
David Puryear writes:
> Xdvi dose not "depend" on ghostscript but "recommend" it.
It *says* it "recommends" it. It behaves as though it requires it. I
perceive no functional difference between "recommends" and "requires".
> Here is where libpaper is:
> ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/unstable/binary-i386/text/libpaper_1.0.3-3.deb
It took weeks for me to discover that. It seemed reasonable to me to
expect a CDROM not to contain packages which depend on stuff not on the
CDROM. It does not seem reasonable to me that anything in "stable" should
depend on anything in "unstable".
John Hasler
jghasler@win.bright.net (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
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