Hi Harri,
Harald Dunkel wrote:
> It would be very nice if git-all could use the Recommends
> entry in debian/control for git-svn, git-cvs, gitweb, and
> maybe others. Similar to git-bzr.
git-all Recommends git-bzr instead of depending on it because
otherwise it would conflict with bzr-git. Hopefully this situation is
only temporary --- all it will take is a patch for bzr-git to register
the git-remote-bzr command through the alternatives system.
> This would allow the user to ignore these packages and yet
> make use of the git-all package.
I'd prefer not to do this. Can you explain a little more about the
motivation?
Is the goal to be able to do the following?
1. With a simple command, get as much git functionality as possible.
2. Remove unwanted packages.
3. Later, with a simple command, remove the git functionality
installed in step (1).
Since all packages from the git source package depend on the "git"
package, I think that should be doable with
apt-get install 'git-*'
apt-get --purge remove git-svn
apt-get --purge remove git
More generally, it would be nice to have a way to perform the three
operations listed above for arbitrary metapackages, but I don't
know a way.
Thanks for writing,
Jonathan
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