[Pkg-giraffe-discuss] exp1 package experience

[Carsten Schoenert]

Hello Mark,

Am 17.12.18 um 13:20 schrieb Mark Dufour:
> 
>> We recommend mariadb-server so it should be pulled in by default
>> installations - we need to check if this is enough since a recommends
>> does not ensure the server is already running (since the postinst did
>> not necessarily run before kopanocore's postinst).
> 
> kopano-server currently has this:
> 
>  Recommends: mariadb-server | default-mysql-server
> 
> but mariadb-server (or other mysql server) is not installed at all,
> at least not when installing via 'dpkg -i *.deb; apt -f install'..?
yes, as dpkg is a low level tool, it just installs one ore more deb
packages, it doesn't know how to solve dependencies. But that are
apt{,-get}, aptitude, synaptics etc are made for.

And the installation of Recommends can be disabled by administrators and
is done quite often on server only systems. On classical desktop systems
the user has to decide if he turns this globally of.

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Regards
Carsten Schoenert