> In fact, there seems to be a lot of unneccessary and problematic Depends: in > the lxqt package that should be Recommends: Nope - you are right that the networking stuff is a little bit hard as dependency. For lean installations the package lxqt-core might fit better. And if l-core isn't core enough - --no-install-recommend is possible or deleting not needed components afterwards
> There's no reason why lxqt should depend on a display manager. it's usable > with just startx. Dependencies on 'sddm-theme-debian-maui | sddm-theme | We see it otherwise - but you are right, moved the wm-dependency to lxqt. Btw. there is no reason to use meta-packages at all. > GUI archive tools like 'xarchiver | ark | engrampa' can be useful, but there's > no justification for making lxqt depend on them. Fortunately, installing them > shouldn't cause any harm, but does take away people's ability to choose. lxqt-core - one can also install the wished packages via apt, mentioned it before > pavucontrol* should also be Recommends: - not everyone uses pulse audio, and > installing those packages and all their dependencies could break someone's > alsa config. lxqt-core > Depends are for things that a package can't do without. Recommends are for > things that are very useful - or "recommended". Suggests are for things that > are merely nice extras. That's your opinion - bare with me if i have a different POV. Depends are not "runs without segfault". Meta-Packages are suggestions how a system could look like. So if one don't like the suggestions one is free to install his wished set of packages package by package. Metapackages will ever be a compromise between functionality and usability. Same for dependencies in single packages. > I run sid, so i'm not unfamiliar with the occasional upgrade-related problem > - bugs or version incompatibilities or whatever....but it should be possible > for me, or anyone else, to run 'apt-get dist-upgrade' without having someone > else's **personal preferences** break their system and their network. Sorry for that, these changes was planned within the freeze - the network thing was a little bit hard, even for the full blown environment.
