David Golden wrote:
The 'recommends' flag is not equivalent to Debian recommends. The intent
should be made clear for authors and the toolchain. If the Debian
definitions are adopted to better match usage by packagers, a 'suggests'
field should be added as well. (Adam Kennedy)
There's too
On Oct 9, 2009, at 6:46 AM, David Golden wrote:
09. Clarify intent of 'recommends' and add 'suggests'
Proposal:
The 'recommends' flag is not equivalent to Debian recommends. The
intent
should be made clear for authors and the toolchain. If the Debian
definitions are adopted to better
Excerpts from Graham Barr's message of Fri Oct 09 09:43:42 -0400 2009:
one option could be though that the failure for a recommended dependency to
install could still allow the dependent to install
On one hand, maybe this would be useful for things that e.g. offer a mod_perl
interface, and
On Oct 9, 2009, at 4:46 AM, David Golden wrote:
* 'recommends' or 'suggests' they both imply (to me) they list
optional
dependencies. Perhaps we could have both, where 'suggests' implies
the
toolchain should ask whether the user wishes to install listed
dependencies, and 'recommends'
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 1:19 PM, David E. Wheeler da...@kineticode.com wrote:
On Oct 9, 2009, at 4:46 AM, David Golden wrote:
* 'recommends' or 'suggests' they both imply (to me) they list optional
dependencies. Perhaps we could have both, where 'suggests' implies the
toolchain should ask
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