On 2013-09-11, 09:36 GMT, Ian Malone wrote:
Can someone explain what the consequences of a 'soft
dependency' would
actually be and how it would be different from putting those files
into a sub-package? (Which may or may not work depending on whether mc
is able to cope dynamically with that.)
See
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html
(section 7.2 for definition of Suggests and Recommends). And of course,
all this matter only if yum, PackageKit, etc. know about these
suggested/recommended packages and have some way how to deal with them.
Debian apt* programs have either option to always follow/not-follow
these soft-dependencies, or they will just select for installation all
packages on which the selected package(s) Depends and then nicely ask
user whether she wants to install also suggested/recommended packages.
Matěj