On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 04:43:20PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Well, I do. Depends is also used for package configuration. If the > package can't configure itself without those packages, Depends is > appropriate.
The problem with discover, IMHO, is that once it gets installed, it's not going to be just called upon as part of producing a working X configuration. It's going to screw things up every time the machine reboots, since it has an init script. Or it used to. CD-ROMs that come and go randomly, interfaces that get renamed for no apparent reason, etc. OTOT, I have to admit that none of Debian's auto-detection tools save for hotplug (and now udev) have been allowed on any box I control in a very long time, so perhaps that's changed. Certainly udev has the same or similar set of problems. If it were a dependency of a meta-package, at least you could remove it and only lose the meta-package. But xserver-xorg *depends* on it now, rather than just recommending it, so you're stuck with it. Can't this be fixed? -- Marc Wilson | "The sixties were good to you, weren't they?" -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | George Carlin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
