On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Skimming through the changelog, it turns out the suggests was turned > into a depends because of a specific Ubuntu bug (LP#149511) which never > applied to Debian. I have checked that hpijs doesn???t require any library > from hplip, therefore the dependency shouldn???t be here.
I do recall hpijs *does* link to an hplip library or somesuch for bidir and FAX support, but that's quite different from pulling in the hplip daemons and GUI. > It doesn???t, so please demote hplip again to a Suggests. (Recommends > would still be too much since now APT installs them by default.) No, it is not too much *if* it is the common use case. We use suggests if it is not the common use case, and recommends if it is, OR if it causes major breakage to not have it installed. It *is* quite easy enough to tell aptitude or synaptic to not install a recommends or suggests, and they don't pester you about it (at least aptitude doesn't). If you use apt-get, that's your problem and loss for using an unfriendly interface to the packaging system that cannot remember your past decisions about when to install suggested and recommended packages. I agree that Depends is too much. I would set it to recommends, but let's see what the current maintainer thinks. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
