Thread: [Announce] fkdep - commandline script to fake dependencies
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sulu is offline sulu
2015-01-21 , 16:13
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#19
Originally Posted by reinob View Post
It's not *that* bad. I mean, the need for such a tool. This is a way for the user to "correct" a maintainer decision to depend on this on that. Debian has the "equivs" program for that (which does essentially the same as fkdep, but fkdep is much cooler because of its rawness
Just because Debian has an equally weird workaround doesn't make this any better.
The correct solution for problems like these would be for the maintainer to turn the "optional dependencies" into suggests or recommends.
Clearing this mess should not be a user's task.

Originally Posted by reinob View Post
I left Debian and continued happily with Slackware. In 2010 I gave it a try again (first Ubuntu, then Debian) and it continues to hurt, but I've learned to live with it
Then why did you switch to Debian at all?

Originally Posted by reinob View Post
(and don't get me started with SuSE,
Don't worry, I won't. This distro made me fail on my first attempt to leave Redmond. I just didn't see enough differences to justify the learning curve.
When I found myself looking for the control center in Suse and yast in Windows I decided to get rid of it.
 

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