On Tue, Jul 10, 2007, Nima wrote: > How are recommends not enforced properly? They are installed if the > user chooses to install recommends, and not installed if the user > doesn't want them.
No, apt-get and synaptic don't enforce Recommends properly, only aptitude does. > I don't think totem-mozilla is high-quality enough to be included with > gnome. It's unstable, unpolished, and slow, and I would strongly > prefer to just watch videos with an external player. Having gnome > depend on it also prevents people from choosing mozilla-mplayer, but I > don't think it needs to depend on either of them. The call of the GNOME meta-packages is not to pull non-GNOME software; as I said, you'll be free to chose when Recommends are usable for us (packagers). -- Loïc Minier
