Le Tuesday 25 September 2007 16:51:10 Patrick Schoenfeld, vous avez écrit : > > module-assistant installs build-essential it doesn't seem like space is > > an important consideration. > > When i read this sentence I had an idea of what would eventually be > better. module-assistant is installing build-essential, you said. Why > shouldn't it install bzip2 on demand? It would make sense, wouldn't it?
Well the real solution to solve this is to count the ratio of packages that provides sources as a bzip2 tarball with regard to gzip tarballs. If this is a vast majority, which is what I think, then its a depends. If this is like fifty-fifty, then a recommends, if this is a small minority, then a suggests... Romain