Boinc-client / manager relationship

[Frank S. Thomas]

On Thursday 15 May 2008 18:17, Skip Guenter wrote:
> boinc-manager requires boinc-client
> boinc-client does not REQUIRE boinc-manager

Strictly speaking boinc-manager also does not require boinc-client because it 
can be used to monitor remote clients. But I think this situation is much 
less common than having boinc-client without boinc-manager installed (think 
of servers without X). I think this relationship is adequately expressed in 
boinc-client's/boinc-manager's Recommends/Suggests fields:

Package: boinc-client
Suggests: boinc-manager

Package: boinc-manager
Recommends: boinc-client

However it seems that people still have problems to install a "standard BOINC 
installation" (client + manager). What can we do to improve the situation? 
Maybe the package descriptions should be improved. Or we could introduce a 
boinc metapackage which depends on boinc-client and boinc-manager.

Other suggestions? 

Cheers,
-- 
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