RFU: vdrift 0.0.2006.02.21-1

Eddy Petrişor eddy.petrisor at gmail.com
Fri May 26 18:48:40 UTC 2006


On 5/26/06, Gonéri Le Bouder <goneri at rulezlan.org> wrote:
> Le Vendredi 26 Mai 2006 19:37, Sam Hocevar a écrit:
> > > I switched back to "Depends:".
> > >
> > > If one day apt-get is able to deal with this situation, i will change it
> > > to Recommends:
> >
> >    This is wrong. apt-get is *not* able to deal with the current
> > situation (ie. circular dependencies). The -data package should not

What wasn't clear?

> > depend on the binary package, so if you want to wait until apt-get is
> > fixed, you must remove the dependency (even Recommends: is useless).

you MUST REMOVE the dependecy

> Ok so if i understand, for the moment we have to keep a such circular
> dependencies for -data packages.

On the contrary, drop it. If you really want something you could use a Suggests.

There could be a viable scenario when somebody would like to
modify/evaluate the data of vdrift and probably would not need the
game. (I know is not so realistic, the best test is by playing - I
tried :-) )

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Regards,
EddyP
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