digiKam in Ubuntu RECOMMENDS konqueror [LWN.net]

digiKam in Ubuntu RECOMMENDS konqueror

Posted Jun 24, 2010 11:49 UTC (Thu) by emmi3 (subscriber, #62443)
In reply to: digiKam by Velmont
Parent article: A quick grumpy review of Shotwell

The Ubuntu package for digikam does NOT depend on Konqueror or Dolphin, but it instead recommends kipi-plugins, which in turn recommends konqueror und suggests kmail and so on...

Since Ubuntu by default installs recommended packages (but afaik not suggested packages) konqueror is "pulled in".

So to install digikam with the kipi-plugins (and exiv2), but without Konqueror and Dolphin one could use the following command:

aptitude -R install digikam kipi-plugins+M exiv2+M

To find out about the dependencies I find the "-D"-switch for aptitude usually very helpful. Or use

aptitude -R digikam

and look out for RECOMMENDED but not installed packages

Yours,
Robert

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digiKam in Ubuntu RECOMMENDS konqueror

Posted Jul 4, 2010 21:19 UTC (Sun) by bjartur (guest, #67801) [Link]

WTH is this a recommendation (rather than a suggestion)?!

Debian Packaging Policy [OT]

Posted Jul 5, 2010 8:30 UTC (Mon) by Felix.Braun (subscriber, #3032) [Link]

The difference as per Debian Packaging Policy is a matter of degree:

Depends: This declares an absolute dependency.
Recommends: This declares a strong, but not absolute, dependency.
Suggests: This is used to declare that one package may be more useful with one or more others.

I think that this fine-grained dependency tracking allows Debian (and derivatives) to strike a good compromise between simplicity and configurability in terms of dependency management.