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On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 7:30 AM Marc Haber <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 01:07:19PM +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > > When I want to install aide, aptitude is telling, that aide-common is > suggested. But it also ist telling, that aide-common is dependent to aide. > > > > This is weired. As aptitude is setting aide-common as dependent to aide, > it should be installed, when aide is installed, but it is NOT. The package > aide-common has to be manually installed. > > > > I do not believe, that this is wanted this way, I more believe, you want > both packages installed, when the package aide is installed. > > Let me try to explain: > > - aide-common (configuration and Debian magic) depends on aide or > aide-dynamic (those two packages provide an aide binary) so that > aide-common > is never installed without an aide binary. > - on the other hand, an aide binary can be useful without our > configuration and the Debian magic. The vast majority of users is > likely to use our configuration and Debian magic anyway, hence > the aide binaries _recommend_ aide-common. > - On normal Debian systems, apt is configured to automatically install > Depends and Recommends, hence apt install aide will pull in > aide-common UNLESS apt is explicitly configured to not install > Recommends. This is a feature usually used by advanced users. > - aptitude will show aide-common as a Recommended package, leaving the > decision to the user. That works as designed. > > If you have additional questions, please ask. Otherwise please close > this issue. I plan closing this issue by the end of March 2021. > > Greetings > Marc > >
