Bug#542220: simpleopal: Should depend on libpt2.6.4-plugins

Jonas Smedegaard dr at jones.dk
Tue Sep 22 17:52:26 UTC 2009


On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 06:53:49PM +0200, Eugen Dedu wrote:
>Alexey Feldgendler wrote:
>> On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:31:12 +0200, Eugen Dedu
>> <Eugen.Dedu at pu-pm.univ-fcomte.fr> wrote:
>>
>>> For libpt2.6.4, it Suggests.  Do you think it is better to 
>>> Recommends?
>>
>> Recommends will do because aptitude installs Recommends by default. 
>> But that means relying on the default. I'd say simpleopal should 
>> depend on the libpt2.6.4-plugins package because it doesn't work at 
>> all without it.
>
>Are you sure it does not work at all without it?

The criteria for Recommends is that most users use it.

"not working at all" is the criteria for Depends.


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  - Jonas

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