Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
The other option is run the install on the command line and use Force Depends, I think its something like this:
dpkg -i --force-depends pd-extended.deb
on the packager side: before the huge pd-extended package is split into several nice packages which would allow us to track dependencies more accurately, i would suggest to not "depend" on binary packages but rather "recommend" them (if it is for external dependencies).
e.g. if somebody is using Pd-extended for all the nifty features in there but they are totally uninterested in doing visuals using Gem, they will probably never notice that they cannot run it because they have not installed libgmerlin_avdec) i think that nowadays, state-of-the-art package managers will try to automatically install all "recommends" packages (a behaviour which i personally don't really like...), so most users won't notice the change (apart from those who cannot satisfy the dependencies and who are currently told to use wild things like "--force-depends")
gmsdr IOhannes