Re: Debian Policy questions
On 2011-07-11 04:43 +0200, William Hopkins wrote:
> If you're curious, the issue I've been having is regarding package
> dependencies. Some packages seem to have extraneous dependencies outside of
> what is strictly required (package build tools will tell you what is strictly
> required). Packages being depended on are e.g. dbus, gconf, etc.
Could you give some examples?
> Even with equivs I can't always manage to install packages without getting the
> dependency because of things like preinst/postinst scripts.
If the maintainer scripts actually use the "extraneous" dependencies,
then maybe they are not really as extraneous as you think.
Sven
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