On 07/28/2013 02:35 PM, lee wrote:
Package B doesn't need to and shouldn't be installed when the
particular
functionality A can provide when B is installed is not needed.
You know that you're not going to need that functionality, but the
package management system doesn't. The only way it could was by
querying at install or uninstall which would conflict with the
requirement that the system not be interactive.