tags 450808 + pending quit On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 08:10:28PM -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > A common use i've seen for the runit-services package is to grab a > single service directory for a particular system service that needs to > be better-supervised than it is by default under sysvinit. > > In this situation, i think the sysadmin would not want socklog-run > installed, and would have no reason to expect/need dash. > > According to policy [0], Recommends means "The Recommends field should > list packages that would be found together with this one in all but > unusual installations." > > Suggests "is used to declare that one package may be more useful with > one or more others. Using this field tells the packaging system and > the user that the listed packages are related to this one and can > perhaps enhance its usefulness, but that installing this one without > them is perfectly reasonable." > > Given that the use case described above is perfectly reasonable, (and > that aptitude is now installing Recommends by default), it makes sense > to move dash and socklog-run into Suggests instead of Recommends. > > Thanks for maintaining this package in debian. runit is a great suite > in the unix tradition.
Yes, you're right, dash and socklog-run should be moved to Depends:. I'll do so with the next upload. Thanks, Gerrit. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
