On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 10:38:42PM +0300, Mantas Kriau?i?nas wrote: > I think, that gnome-core should depend on fam, because lots of people > are installing gnome-core, not gnome and in some "how to install > gnome 2.x in debian" instructions gnome-core package is mentioned > (see for example http://www.debianplanet.org/node.php?id=992)
Since we are all thinking, I think you are all wrong :-) What depends on fam and why? Whatever needs fam to work correctly should depend on fam, it's really that simple. What you are doing is hand-waving about the possibility that some user might not want to have the portmapper and/or fam running. Looking at /etc/init.d/portmap: test -f /sbin/portmap || exit 0 Hmm... that feels wrong, idependently of this discussion. The file exists, but that doesn't mean the file is executable. That should read: test -f /sbin/portmap -a -x /sbin/portmap || exit 0 Which means you can use dpkg-statoverride to prevent the thing from ever starting. Alternatively you could use dpkg-divert to hide the thing from the script's sight. The same applies to fam. So, the corner cases are happy and the rest of the world gets what they paid for: a correctly installed system where dependencies actually have a meaning. In short: get the dependency out of "gnome"/"gnome-core" and put it where it really belongs, whatever that is. -- Marcelo
