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Re: DPM § 7.2 and proposal for Pre-Recommends



On Sun, 2019-09-08 at 10:32 +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 07, 2019 at 07:07:37PM -0700, Kip Warner wrote:
> An alternative is to have an 'After' field. It would not specify any
> dependency relationship between packages, only an ordering one. You'd
> have to specify a package in Recommends and After, but you could also
> specify it in Suggests and After, or just generically ensure your
> package is configured after some other package.
> 
> It's more versatile, at the expense of more typing.

I think that is a sound idea. It obviates the potential need for an
eventual Pre-Suggests as well.

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