Le mercredi 14 septembre 2011 14:23:11, Thierry Vignaud a écrit : > On 14 September 2011 14:04, Guillaume Rousse <[email protected]> wrote: > > Le 14/09/2011 13:40, Thierry Vignaud a écrit : > >> Likewise due to widespread suggests among perl modules, we bring quite > >> a lot of perl modules: > >> urpmi -> perl-Hal-Cdroms -> Net-DBus -> XML-Twig -> XML-Parser -> > >> LWP -> perl-libwww-perl -> HTTP::Negotiate -> HTTP::Negotiate -> > >> HTTP::Message > > > > Automatic dependencies computing result... The algorithm used here can't > > figure if a module used anywhere in the source is always used, or only in > > specific occasion. > > > > I see two potential links that could get turned in soft dependencies > > here: - urpmi -> perl-Hal-Cdroms, but urpmi should probably get > > modified to ensure a graceful failure if the user tries to use a cdrom, > > while Hal::Cdroms is not installed. > > It's already a suggests and urpmi already handles smoothly its absence. > But we could remove altogether that suggests and only install it in case > of DVD install.
I don't know about this one specifically, but couldn't there be 'no-suggests' option (named for example "install only strong dependencies") in the installer, under the form where you select the kind of packages you want ? Samuel
