Re: Ignore a dependency

[Henning Schild <henning.schild@siemens.com>]

Am Tue, 13 Sep 2022 14:58:52 +0200
schrieb "Roberto A. Foglietta" <roberto.foglietta@gmail.com>:

> Il Mar 13 Set 2022, 14:53 Uladzimir Bely <ubely@ilbers.de> ha scritto:
> 
> > In the email from Tuesday, 13 September 2022 14:55:58 +03 user
> > Roberto A. Foglietta wrote:  
> > > I wish to ignore a package that it is listed ad dependency. Just
> > > that package and its dependencies.
> > >
> > > mainpackage nothis-
> > >
> > > Notice the minus at the end.
> > >
> > > I tried this approach with different options buy broke the
> > > building
> > >
> > > Thank,
> > > -R  
> >
> > Hello Roberto
> >
> > Could you please clarify what exactly do you mean?
> >
> > Is it pure Isar dependency (custom packages), or you might want to
> > install some Debian package and ignore some of it's dependencies?
> >  
> 
> The 2nd you wrote: a debian package.

You could use dpkg-deb to unpack and repack. Or build it from source
and apply a patch, however patching the debian/ folder is not trivial
even if the patch will be.

You could also write an empty package with the same name, your package
should win over the one from debian.

But whatever you do ... do not do any of that! You would need a _very_
good reason to not install what you get from debian. If a dep can
really be dropped you should discuss that with the debian maintainer.
If not, you likely want to install what is apparently "needed".

Anything you change will be on you and eventually come back to you. Any
"i need to save 3MB", or "i do not want the package because of a
license" likely does not qualify as a good reason to "fork".

Henning

> 
> > Any example of what you've tried already would be great.
> >  
> 
> As example you can choose any .deb that has a dependency and try to
> install without it.
> 
> Thanks, R-
>