On Debian and Fedora experiences

seth vidal skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Thu Dec 7 16:13:58 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 13:21 +0000, Matej Cepl wrote:
> seth vidal scripst:
> > I don't think anyone is opposed to the idea of suggests/recommends
> > inherently. I, for one, would just like us to make sure we understand
> > the policies that it entails. Especially when we think of things like
> > 'enhances' which is a reverse dependency.
> 
> I am not sure I understand your question -- is this the answer
> http://www.us.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-binarydeps ?
> 

Not exactly. Though I did learn something fun this week. Apt in debian
doesn't do anything about 'enhances' or 'recommends' other than print
them to stdout.

That'd be pretty easy to facilitate ;)

-sv





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