Comment 9 for bug 231811
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| Hew (hew) wrote Re: freedom is a dependancy for prboom... but shouldn't | #9 |
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(Get the code!)
Remember the difference between Recommends and Suggests. By making it Recommends, users blindly installing prboom will still get freedm on their system as Recommends is installed by default, so these users will not be disadvantaged. The advantage of having Recommends instead of Depends is that users such as antiNeo get the choice of removing the unwanted packages when they just want to use prboom with wad files.
The doom-package description says "Currently doom-package supports DOOM 2 only", so unfortunately this is still not a solution. In any case, the user should be able to use plain wad files if that's what they decide to do.
I cannot see any disadvantage in switching Depends to Recommends in this case. Thanks Jon for taking interest in this issue; it would be great if the patch can be made upstream.