[Gambas-user] 2 questions about making an Installation Packet

[Benoît Minisini]

Le 14/02/2020 à 15:45, Christof Thalhofer a écrit :
> Am 14.02.20 um 13:21 schrieb Benoît Minisini:
> 
>>> Wouldn't it be better to use "recommends" or even "suggests" in the
>>> Debian control file instead of "depends"?
> 
>> I don't know, I'm not a Debian specialist.
>>
>> But for me, by default, if you create a Gambas package, it depends on
>> the Gambas version of your system (or any other version specified in the
>> packager dialog).
>>
>> Isn't it like a binary package of a perl program that depends on the
>> perl interpreter package?
> 
> Yes you are right. It is so.
> 
> With "Depends:" apt cannot be hindered to install the Gambas runtime and
> components at all.
> 
> But if the IDE would package with "Recommends:" instead of "Depends:"
> one could install the package with:
> 
> apt-get --no-install-recommends install package-xyz.deb
> 
> And it would not install Gambas from the distribution. This is quite
> handy if you have a self-compiled Gambas version on that computer.
> 
> With "Recommends:" apt installs the Gambas runtime and every component
> needed by default if invoked with:
> 
> apt-get install package-xyz.deb
> 
> ... which is the standard way to install Debian packages.
> 
> ---
> 
> But maybe I am the only one who wants to deploy a Gambas program as
> Debian package without installing the distribution's Gambas at a special
> machine at all. If that's the case, don't mind. I am packaging most of
> my Gambas programs with Make.
> 
> 
> Alles Gute
> 
> Christof Thalhofer
> 

i didn't know. Is it the standard way of specifying dependencies of 
programs needing an interpreter?

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Benoît Minisini