On Sun, 28 May 2000, Ian Jackson wrote: > The effect of that `Suggests' is to make every Debian user who > deselects dpkg-source or selects apt to get a dependency alert of some > kind. I don't think that's appropriate. The packaging manual says > this:
*shrug* I'm just following policy: > Suggests > This is used to declare that one package may be more useful with one or > more others. Using this field tells the packaging system and the user > that the listed packages are related to this one and can perhaps > enhance its usefulness, but that installing this one without them is > perfectly reasonable. Does this not perfectly describe the apt<->dpkg-dev relationship? I think it does. What I consider to be an important APT function does not work without dpkg-dev, but if you don't use that function you are fine. Jason
