Hi Adeodato, Le vendredi 31 octobre 2008 à 19:30 +0100, Adeodato Simó a écrit : > * Julien Valroff [Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:53:43 +0100]: > > > Hi, > > > I am the maintainer of the ajaxterm package. > > > I have been provided a patch to allow use of psyco in ajaxterm only if > > available. > > > I would like to ajaxterm to recommend or suggest this package, which is > > only available for i386, whereas ajaxterm is an arch:all package. > > > Is there any way to specify this? > > > Should I leave psyco anyway, and rely on apt to not try and install it > > on architectures where it is not available? > > > Should I change my package to be arch:any (I guess no, just asking)? > > I think Recommending or, particularly, Suggesting packages that don't > exist in certain arches is ok for arch:all packages, the story being > that nobody notices that it doesn't get installed. > > If it was a Depends, and arch:all package would depend on "psyco | > not+i386", which would pull in type-handling on all !i386 arches. There > is no point at all in doing that for Recommends, though: you want psyco > just not installed, not random crap pulled in. :-)
Thanks for your confirmation. I have just tried it on a local packages archive, and it seems to work ok with aptitude (--with-recommends). Cheers, Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
