[Gambas-user] Complex Extra Dependency

Tobias Boege taboege at ...626...
Thu Feb 14 18:47:35 CET 2013


On Thu, 14 Feb 2013, John Rose wrote:
> I thought that I'd just ask this question again.
> 
> I have written an app in Gambas 3.3.4 & want to make an installation 
> package for Ubuntu. The app has a dependency of gnome-panel which must 
> be installed by:
> sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends gnome-panel
> according to
> UnityLaunchersAndDesktopFiles - Community Ubuntu Documentation 
> <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UnityLaunchersAndDesktopFiles>
> which states that:
> It is important to install gnome-panel using the following command 'sudo 
> apt-get install --no-install-recommends gnome-panel', so as not to 
> install the recommended not-needed packets along with it.
> 
> If I put gnome-panel in the Extra Dependencies step, it would presumably 
> effectively be sudo apt-get install gnome-panel?
> 
> What should I do?
> 

Are sure that you can actually accomplish what you want, namely that the
dependency _can_ be installed with the --no-install-recommends argument? I
don't know the format of .deb packages. If you know better, please say it so
that one can estimate the effort to implement it.

Regards,
Tobi




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