[wpkg-users] Strict depend/chain checks or conflicts on 1.3.1?

[Rainer Meier]

Hi Marco,

On 24.06.2014 16:48, Marco Gaiarin wrote:
> Ahem, ops, clearly my example was wrong... ops... if the priority of
> 'libreoffice' is '50', the priority of 'libreoffice-help-it' have to be
> '45' (LOWER then 50) to have 'libreoffice-help-it' install AFTER
> 'libreoffice', sorry for the typo.

I didn't even verify this part as the descriptive text was quite clear and of 
course priority is important then.


>> Although there is absolutely no dependency check. So in case
>
> Effectively it is not needed; 'libreoffice' does not depend on
> 'libreoffice-help-it'.

Yes, but the point is that there is no check, if one of them fails they will 
fail independently.



> ?! 'libreoffice-help-it' depends on 'libreoffice', so i think i don't need
> more checks... depend will suffice... right?


Yes in this case libreoffice-help-it package should fail if libreoffice is not 
installed yet. Though I personally recommend either to use dependencies or use 
include and/or chain. As you mix them you might end up in inclusion-loop. Though 
with "include" this is less likely to happen.

Short answer is: Your proposal is supposed to work.


I still do not recommend to use include of libreoffice-help-it in libreoffice 
base package since I would expect in the future to have some more 
libreoffice-help-<lang> package and having an include in the base libreoffice 
package already pre-selects the optional packages. So unless you plan to have a 
specific libreoffice package with specific includes for each use-case it would 
be more helpful to just add those specific packages (like 
libreofice-help-<lang>) to the profiles and let WPKG handle the automatic 
inclusion of libreoffice.
So there might be some libreoffice-<module> packages, all depending on the base 
libreoffice pakcage and the profile just needs to specify any 
libreoffice-<module> package (one or multiple) and libreoffice gets installed 
automatically. Moreover after removing all packages depending on libreoffice 
package WPKG would also automatically clean up the system. But as you explained 
you seem to be more worried about your workmates not getting the point.

So it's up to you how to handle it.

br,
Rainer