Re: APT recommendations/suggestions not obvious
On Monday 11 August 2008 07:53, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 07:35:18PM -0500, Ron Johnson
<ron.l.johnson@cox.net> was heard to say:
> > TTBOMK, neither apt/aptitude/synaptics stores explicit "this is why
> > package A is recommended" data. If it did, I'd immediately convert to
> > that app.
>
> The problem is that this information isn't stored anywhere in a
> standard, machine-parsable format. If it was, I'd immediately start
> using it. I know there was some discussion in the last year or so about
> documenting Suggests, but I don't recall what happened to it...
Hi.
I've started a [1]discussion in debian-devel and debian-dpkg. Haven't any
replies yet.
>
> Daniel
1. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/08/msg00255.html
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