On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 09:27:22AM +0100, Pierre Labastie wrote:
> On 17/11/2017 06:23, Thomas Trepl wrote:
>
> There are a lot of reasons why a package could be recommended:
> - because it brings a feature which makes the actual package more useful.
> - because it simplifies the actual build
> - because that feature may be needed if another package is built
> using the actual package
As an expansion of the second reason, sometimes a package's authors
assume that another package will be present, but still provide an
option to build without it (e.g. --disable-vala in configure
packages).
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