Bug#284618: [Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#284618: nagios-text and nagios-plugins have a circular dpkg-configure dependency

[sean finney]

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hi,

On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 11:51:56PM -0800, Jeremy T. Bouse wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 02:28:57PM -0800, tony mancill wrote:
> > FWIW, I don't see any point in having any of the nagios server packages
> > depend on the plugins.  They aren't required to have a functioning nagi=
os
> > setup.
> >=20
> 	I've had a similar thought myself as there is a legit reason to
> have the plugins installed on a client that you don't want to have the
> server portion installed on.=20

i think that's why nagios-plugins doesn't depend on nagios :)

as for nagios-plugins being depended upon by nagios-{text,mysql,pgsql},
i'd be willing to consider changing the dependency to a recommends if
someone could point out a valid circumstance in which nagios would be
useful without it.


	sean

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