Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva <[email protected]> writes: > Quoting policy: >> The Depends field should be used if the depended-on package is >> required for the depending package to provide a significant amount of >> functionality. > > My point is: is there even an unusual case in that it could be useful to > have cabal-install installed and not ghc6?
Here's a hypothetical, pathological case: You want to mirror hackage (using cabal fetch) to a central NAS, and then have various buildbots do compiles. The buildbots aren't trusted with net access, and the NAS has 512MB of MTD for the OS. You want cabal-install on the NAS, but not ghc6. > So, reading this quote, I think Recommends is the way to go for -doc > packages. FWIW, I'm ambivalent; either Recommends or Depends is fine with me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
