(Sent this privately to Matijs by mistake.) On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 8:36 AM, Matijs van Zuijlen <[email protected]> wrote: > On 19/04/14 00:44, Per Andersson wrote: >> I would like to reach a consensus on libjs-jquery though, which is not >> suggested even though the bundled jquery.js is replaced with a symlink >> to /usr/share/javascript/jquery/jquery.js. This is because libjs-query >> recommends javascript-common which in turn suggests >> apache | lighttpd | http. If I have understood correctly, if suggests are >> configured to install automatically, suggestions would be automatically >> installed. This would install a lot of, probably unwanted, stuff > > 'Suggests' really means what it says, it's just a suggestion. If people > configure suggestions to be automatically installed, it seems to me that's > their > own choice, and they will have to live with the consequences. For a nice > example > of those consequences: packaging-dev recommends cmake, and cmake suggests > eclipse. > > In the default case, by recommending libjs-jquery, just javascript-common > would > be installed additionally, which seems entirely reasonable to me.
I noticed that libruby2.0 and libruby2.1 both depend on libjquery-js and replace the bundled jquery.js in darkfish with a symlink to jquery.min.js. Ruby packages should then be able to not even suggest libjs-jquery, since they depend on ruby | ruby-interpreter. This of course adds the requirement that packages providing ruby-interpreter must depend on libjs-jquery and provide the correct symlink. -- Per -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/cabyrxsqfqzfb2ytw__-vmu05mgyc2qkkbtp-v6vhf8gyyfg...@mail.gmail.com
