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lardman is offline lardman
2010-08-17 , 21:19
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#440
Originally Posted by dragly View Post
@Wikiwide: I'm glad to hear that my post helped you

I've just tested installation of mbarcode now and it seems like the Recommends field in the deb package does nothing. In other words, all plugins, including the standard ones, have to be installed manually by the user - which is not very user friendly.

So the best solution is probably to bundle all the standard plugins into the main mbarcode package, like joshn53 suggested. I have done this now and just pushed an update version. Let's see if it works as expected

I've also set it to conflict with the old plugin packages, so that the user does not install them side-by-side with the bundled plugins.
Would it not be better to leave the plugin packages alone and change the mbarcode package to depend on each plugin?

In fact it might even be worth creating a meta package called mbarcode-plugins, and then we can add each plugin to that meta-package to avoid fiddling around with the mbarcode package directly and instead just make it depend on the meta-package.

I'm not sure how the circular dep of the plugins on mbarcode would be handled, but there must be a way to do this cleanly without needing to modify the mbarcode package each time a plugin needs an update.
 

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