Hi,
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006, Filipus Klutiero wrote:
> could you please clarify exactly which dependency relation is not being
> handled correctly by synaptic? I would have guessed a recommendation of
> gstreamer0.10-alsa by rhythmbox, but rhythmbox does not recommend
> gstreamer0.10-alsa.
rhythmbox depends on gstreamer0.10-plugins-good which recommends
gstreamer0.10-alsa.
> Also, synaptic not dealing with Recommends by default does not make
> Recommends useless, since the users can look at the package dependencies
> and see which recommendations may be missing, just like with dselect.
> Consequently, it seems that this bug would be more appropriate as
> "wishlist".
What you describe is "Suggests:", not "Recommends:". Please check
Policy 7.2 which is *extremely* clear on the importance of
"Recommends:":
Recommends
This declares a strong, but not absolute, dependency.
The Recommends field should list packages that would be found
together with this one in all but unusual installations.
I believe synaptic mimics an apt-get bug here.
(BTW, dselect does install Recommends by default.)
Cheers,
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Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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