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git-core package

  1. Bug #52711
  2. Comment #11

Comment 11 for bug 52711

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Michael B. Trausch (mtrausch) wrote : Re: [Bug 52711] Re: git-core requires curl but doesn't download it
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On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 11:42 +0000, Emil Sit wrote:
> I think the current error message could be a bit friendlier though
> arguably anyone using git clone can probably figure out that if you're
> missing curl, you need to install it.

That's not a reason to keep it broken. I have never liked having to
'sudo apt-get' more than once to have a package be _functional_.

Fact is, git-clone uses curl. The dependency is added for a reason (and
one which is very easily verifiable). If the dependency were not
needed, I would argue that this bug would be invalid.

If I _have_ to 'sudo apt-get' something _else_, just so that the package
I originally installed works, this is a broken dependency, not merely
"Oh, you didn't install the suggests." (If I installed the Suggests: or
the Recommends: for every package on my system, I'd probably have the
entire archive installed.)

In this case, git-clone is _broken_ without curl installed. It needs to
be there. Is there any more proof than that necessary?

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