-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 22-06-2005 22:15, Finn-Arne Johansen wrote: > Back in the woody days, we used to have the education-packages depend > upon the various packages we wanted to include in the installation. > Then, when we started to release our packages into the sarge repository, > and there were depends, these depends blocked other packages from > entering testing, because of conflicts. > Therefor, Joey did a bit of rewriting, so that we recomended other > packages, and that solved the conflicts. > Now, since sarge is stable, there wont be new packages added or removed, > and also since our new packages wont go into sarge, we can use depends > instead of recommends, and that may solve some of the trouble with > upgrades. Maybe not from woody installations, but for those who are > putting prerelease of Sarge into production in a couple of months > without proper support.
Is this a problem when using aptitude? If so, is the reason perhaps that the aptitude is configured to not respect "recommends"? If so, upgrade instructions could say to use "aptitude --with-recommends" to override local preference while upgrading. - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden er nær: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCupRGn7DbMsAkQLgRAt3OAJ47kZwsHACwYNNH0ukuuijl1qp2PQCfT3ST ElJW6bIikYP1Aq4TnyF1fX4= =D4cy -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
