Hi, On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 10:36:16AM +0100, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 07:56:30AM +0200, olafbuddenha...@gmx.net > wrote:
> > (Assuming the packages get installed by default.) > > Debian's Suggests or Recommends mechanism ought to be used for that. Suggests don't get pulled in automatically; so they aren't terribly useful most of the time... Recommends might be somewhat more helpful. However, as the hurd package is already there the moment a new Hurd installation is created, I'm not sure Recommends of the hurd package would ever get pulled in automatically either?... > > But that's not what we have now. And we have interesting new > > translators that want to be first class citizens *now*, not > > eventually... > > So, scaling this up, the workaround you suggest is to include every > pice of software that you / I / others deem useful in some way into > the Hurd package? No, that's not what I'm suggesting. The fact that we obviously can't put the whole system in a single package, doesn't automatically mean that it's not useful to put certain consistent parts of the system in a single package. > How about instead actively looking for someone to do this small Debian > packaging work? Perhaps we could even ask on some Debian beginners' > mailing list if there is a (yet unknown) person who wants to do it for > us, sponsored by Michael, Guillem, Samuel, etc.? Good idea... But it doesn't change my position on this :-) -antrik-
