Re: Dependency problem and apt-get
On Fri, 18 Apr 2003 12:22:29 +0100
Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> wrote:
> Looking at the bluefish package in unstable, I see that this is the case
> here. It may be possible to compile bluefish without aspell support, but
> that would require a separate package.
>
> Is the aspell support a problem?
Many thanks for your reply.
I don't particularly want aspell for two reasons. Firstly, I don't
normally need a spell checker, and installing unused packages doesn't seem
an optimal policy. More importantly, I run mostly testing and want to
minimise the amount I get from unstable and libaspell15 is an 'unstable'
package.
I don't know if this makes any sense, but perhaps there's a case for there
to be a small 'dummy' file that could satisfy the dependencies for
optional components of a package. But then, I don't know anything about
how apt detects dependency issues or, indeed about how packages are
constructed.
- Richard.
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Richard Kimber
http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/
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