Re: kernel-package or kernel-source needs libncurses-devel

[Daniel Burrows <Daniel_Burrows@brown.edu>]

On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 01:08:26PM -0500, Steve Greenland <stevegr@debian.org> was heard to say:
> Please, no, not a bug against apt-get. Dselect's overly aggressive
> handling of Recommends is already painful. Apt-get should just grab the
> "depends" level dependencies. If you want "recommends" and "suggests"
> dependencies recognized, use a higher level tool (e.g. dselect,
> console-apt, aptitude).

  aptitude, at least, hasn't yet implemented this.  It's not hard to do; I
wouldn't be surprised if it gets into 0.0.8 (which probably won't be released,
or indeed coded on by me, until at least June..)

  Daniel

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