Hi, On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 09:57:35AM +0200, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > Hi. > > Nicolas Boullis wrote: > > If there's currently no way to set up such things, it might be worth > > suggesting to add such a feature to next-generation .deb format. Don't > > you think so? > To be honest, no. > If you do a Recommends: udev (>= ...), most people will just install the > recommended udev and be fine. People who have reason to not like to use > udev will just not. > Most people won't want to make a decision, so it's of no use giving them > the choice. Those who want to choose will read the README.Debian to see > what's going on. For the others: Do venture a single recommondation.
I have to disagree. For people who don't want to make a choice, tools like aptitude in its default configuration will install recommended packages. So it would install udev, even for someone who uses a 2.4 kernel... I'd rather set no recommendation at all, or conflict with old udev... > > Oh, and I just thought there could be a workaround. I could make a new > > no-udev empty package that conflicts with udev, and then write > > "Recommends: no-udev | udev (>= 0.060-1)". > > I guess this would behave as expected, but I think that having one more > > package only for this would be quite insane! > Let's not. Don't worry, I won't. Let's not bloat the packages file once again! ;-) Nicolas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
