On Friday 07 December 2007, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > On 12/07 03:04 , Samuel Krieg wrote: > > The packages I had to install on a minimal Debian box: > > > > apt-get install backuppc > > apt-get install rsync libfile-rsyncp-perl > > This is a packaging issue, and I'm not sure if it's a good thing or not. > The argument for doing it this way is that the admin may not use rsync > for backups; in which case it's better to not include the rsync package. > I would posit that rsync is really the best way to do backups, and most > people would want to do backups that way unless they had some unusual > situation; so it may not be bad to include the rsync packages.
I've filed a BR in Debian about this [1]. IMO all packages that support a backup method should be Recommends as that will get them installed by default but also gives the sysadmin to unselect those he does not need/use. Cheers, FJP [1] http://bugs.debian.org/454795 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
