On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, Phil Howard wrote:
> Any Debian users/gurus around?
> 
> I found that Debian has Amanda broken into 3 packages:
>     amanda-common
>     amanda-client
>     amanda-server
> 
> What I expected was I could install amanda-client on client machines and
> amanda-server on a server machine (both on a machine that is the tape
> server _and_ has data to be backed up).  I expected amanda-common to be
> needed on either client or server.

Yes.

> However, when installing amanda-common, it also installs amanda-client.
> Anyone know why Debian has things arranged this way?

None of the amanda-common packages (I checked stable, testing, and unstable)
depend on amanda-client.

I had no problem (on Debian testing) removing amanda-client (and keeping
amanda-common), or installing amanda-common only.

But amanda-common does suggest amanda-client | amanda-server. Perhaps you have
some `auto install suggested packages' option enabled?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                                                Geert

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