Re: Bug#64798: apt -Suggests-> dpkg-dev
On Sun, 28 May 2000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> The effect of that `Suggests' is to make every Debian user who
> deselects dpkg-source or selects apt to get a dependency alert of some
> kind. I don't think that's appropriate. The packaging manual says
> this:
*shrug* I'm just following policy:
> Suggests
> This is used to declare that one package may be more useful with one or
> more others. Using this field tells the packaging system and the user
> that the listed packages are related to this one and can perhaps
> enhance its usefulness, but that installing this one without them is
> perfectly reasonable.
Does this not perfectly describe the apt<->dpkg-dev relationship? I think
it does.
What I consider to be an important APT function does not work without
dpkg-dev, but if you don't use that function you are fine.
Jason
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