Randolph Chung wrote: > hmm... even though the package will *fail* installation without them?
Well in that case, no. What does it do during installation that uses them? > maybe i'll use this -- please let me know if it makes sense: > Depends: perl | mysql-base > Recommends: cron | httpd | mysql-server | bind | libdbi-perl | > libdbd-mysql-perl I think you want to tr/|/,/ on that. You can lose the perl dependancy if it will run with only perl-base installed. (Which it probably will unless it uses lots of perl modules). > Rationale: it needs perl and mysql-base (mysqladmin) to install (and > definitely needs perl to run). All the other parts are needed to run the > program, but are not necessarily on the same machine, or, in the case of the > lib*perl packages, might have been installed by the user as separate CPAN > packages. Generally installing stuff direclty from CPAN is not supported - if you have to you can use equivs or something to let dpkg know you have a local version. So I'd make those into dependancies. How can cron be used if it's not on the same machine? -- see shy jo
