On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 6:42 PM, dave reisner <d@falconindy.com> wrote:
On May 22, 2011 6:05 PM, "Gaetan Bisson" <bisson@archlinux.org> wrote:
[2011-05-22 10:43:17 -0400] Dave Reisner:
- yp-tools is currently in extra. we would need to bring this into core in order to support setting a domainname
I do not think yp-tools is really eligible to go to [core]: strictly- speaking, it is not required to either boot up the computer or connect to the Internet.
However, it can perfectly well be made an optdepends of initscripts while staying in [extra]; this is probably the way to go since yp-tools is not of use to everybody.
-- Gaetan
As long as its kosher to have an optdepend lower in the dep tree. I agree that its certainly not the majority use case.
Dave
A [core] package can have an optdepends on a package in [extra]. No-one objected when I did it for links. Other packages might do it too. Eric