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Re: Where to document package relations (was: Playing video in browser)


From: Dmitry Alexandrov
Subject: Re: Where to document package relations (was: Playing video in browser)
Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2020 23:53:39 +0300
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Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> wrote:
> It's not very obvious what to document it since it applies to all WebKitGTK.
>
> It's part of the "general software knowledge".  For instance, if you install 
> an archiver like `atool', it's your reponsibility to install the backends 
> (unzip, p7zip, etc.) to support the various archive formats.  Where to 
> document this?

Normally, in the package relation graph itself.

For instance, in Debian gstreamer1.0-libav and gstreamer1.0-plugins-good are 
_recommended_ by libwebkit2gtk-* packages.  From a user point of view, that 
means that when he mark epiphany-browser for installing in a package manager, 
such as aptitude(1), they are marked as well, but, unlike hard dependencies, 
can be unmarked.

The same applies to atool and its backends, by the way.

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