Re: mtools
On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 03:35:41PM +0000, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> > mtools, it's only one single file; a daemon (floppyd, if I'm not all
> > wrong) that needs xlib6g. It'd be simple to extract this daemon from
> > mtools and create an extra package with just this file, and make this file
> > recommended by mtools, and make mtools required by the extra-package.
>
> So now you have two packages one without an xlib6 dependency, that
> requires an extra-package with _does_ depend on xlib6. Pushing the
> dependency away by one package, doesn't make it disappear.
But who said mtools need to depend on floppyd package?
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