Edgy Third Party Package Management

[Sebastian Heinlein]

Am Freitag, den 30.06.2006, 16:42 -0500 schrieb Jerry Haltom:
> The .apt file says to install "photoshop". The handler adds the
> repository, updates. A dialog box comes up which allows the user to
> customize what exactly is installed. "photoshop" Recommends
> "photoshop-brushes" and "photoshop-samples". It Suggests
> "photoshop-extensions".
> 
> |X| Photoshop
> |X| Extra brushes
> |X| Sample files
> | | Third party extensions
> 
> 
> ^ Like Windows/OS X installer dialogs. Driven out by the Recommends
> and
> Suggests lines of a particular package. Interesting. ;) 

By the way the plan for edgy is to also install recommends by default.

See https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/recommends-support

Sebastian