On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 10:58:13AM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > > I recommend to have it as a Depends, as it should not depend on other > > packages, and that enables to switch to CGI without installing more > > packages (for munin). > > it's not needed for "normal" (cron graphing) munin operation, so a depends is > wrong. > > > An elegant possibility is the way EPEL did it : via a dedicated munin-cgi > > package, that has the correct deps for CGI. > > yes, I've been thinking about this too. we could also have munin-apache and > munin-lighttpd etc packages. We still have some time in the jessie cycle.
I think it's ok for a package to depend another if most of the users will want it. Even if a package isn't strictly required, as a matter of simplicity I think just having it be a depends (or at least recommends) would be better. If you want to spend the time and go all out, that'd be preferred of course.
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