On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 6:42 PM, dave reisner <[email protected]> wrote: > > On May 22, 2011 6:05 PM, "Gaetan Bisson" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> [2011-05-22 10:43:17 -0400] Dave Reisner: >> > - yp-tools is currently in extra. we would need to bring this into core >> > in order >> > to support setting a domainname >> >> I do not think yp-tools is really eligible to go to [core]: strictly- >> speaking, it is not required to either boot up the computer or connect >> to the Internet. >> >> However, it can perfectly well be made an optdepends of initscripts >> while staying in [extra]; this is probably the way to go since yp-tools >> is not of use to everybody. >> >> -- >> Gaetan > As long as its kosher to have an optdepend lower in the dep tree. I agree > that its certainly not the majority use case. > > Dave
A [core] package can have an optdepends on a package in [extra]. No-one objected when I did it for links. Other packages might do it too. Eric
