On 11/12/2010 05:24 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
On Nov 11, 2010, at 10:23 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
I'm new to Debian and to linux, and have two noob questions:
- If package A has an abstraction that depends on an object from
package B, is package B automatically installed when I install package A?
If the package has the correct Depends: set, then yes. For binary libraries, there are tools to do it. For abstractions, its a manual process, but I suppose we could script it.
and if something was missed, it would be a bug, that you could report and that can easily be fixed (given that a lot of packages are packaged right now, it might be that there is too little time to check everything manually)
- If package A has a help patch that uses an object from package
B, is package B automatically installed when I install package A?
Same as above.
there has been some discussion about this, and the consensus was, that help-patch dependencies should be treated as not-hard-dependencies. this would allow advanced users to override the "dependency", e.g. _allowing_ to install a library like "pd-mapping" without having to install "pd-pddp".
but in general, a user who does not want to tweak their pkg-manager settings, will get a fully functional library.
fm,asdr IOhannes