Tor Olav Stava wrote this on Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 05:22:21PM +0100.
My reply is below.

> If a package have listed " A or B " as prerequisites, will the
> scripts then report both A and B in the output?

The AuditPackages.py script (which has not been updated, yet) patches
up alternatives, but is rigged to select only one ~ hopefully the most
common one.

> Second, the script generated by DownloadPackages.py will not work as
> expected with JDK. I have not run the script, but from the output I
> guess it will only download the .html file.

Correct.  I think I will change HarvestPackages.py to collect all the
download URLs, and I will change DownloadPackages.py to generate a
script with comments for all but the last one.

> Will the Recommended ones be automagically included as prerequisites
> and the Optional ones need to be specified in "wishlist.txt"?

That's right.

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