]] Ian Jackson > This is particularly true when these users have already decided not to > take the maintainer's advice. By the decision not to install n-m, > those users have already overruled the maintainer for their own > systems. To say that we think the maintainer knows best is going > against the clearly expressed opinion of a user who has deliberately > deinstalled n-m.
.. or who just has an old system which didn't have Recommends installation enabled by default, or where it's been disabled since Recommends end up dragging in all kinds of stuff. It's a bit late now, but when we changed the default for Recommends to be on by default, we should have purged the archive of existing Recommends. > And, as you say, reinstalling n-m during the upgrade is deeply > problematic. At the very best it will have no beneficial > effect until the user take explicit action to reconfigure their > networking to use n-m. There is of course no particular reason why it > would be difficult for a user who changed their mind to reinstall n-m > as and when they felt like it - under conditions where they are > prepared for a failure of their networking and have the time and > inclination to reconfigure. At best, it will mean the user who previously had a working networking menu still has one after the upgrade. wicd, from what's been told here, does not integrate at all with gnome-shell, meaning those users are now left without an obvious way to configure their networking. I don't think that's in the users's best interest either. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
