On Thu, 2024-02-22 at 20:52 +0100, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote: > > While I like the idea in general, I wonder how I could override these > automatic additions. > I think there are some packages that even demote `${shlibs:Depends}` > to Recommends. >
Absolutely. collectd for example - otherwise you would install *all* plugin dependencies with collectd, which would be a big waste of space. The other option would be to make one packe per plugin as redhat does, but do we really want 20 packages with a single file? Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de http://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F