Hi,

I have the same problem, and for the time being, I use an empty
"convenient_dependencies" package with those dependencies. You build the
package only if you want those, but it works perfectly well if you don't.

Cheers,

Ugo

On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Ruben Smits <ruben.smits@mech.kuleuven.be>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Would it be possible to create optional dependencies for packages? This
> would
> mean that the package would perfectly work without this dependency. But if
> you
> want e.g. the documentation to build also, you need this optional system
> dependency too.
>
> This would result in a "suggests" ubuntu package instead of a hard
> dependency.
>
> -- ruben
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