On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 09:52:44AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > A field in the control file is unlikely to have enough space to > truly state the reasons (remember, the maintainer has alsready stated > that in their judgement the packages belong together for all but the > most unusual installations). Adding a special file with expanded > explanations or essays might work.
The goal is not to produce an iron-clad defense of your judgement, it's to allow the user to make a more informed judgement than they could otherwise make. I've drawn some packages fully at random from the package list to see whether there's any reason to believe that we couldn't construct a helpful explanation of their suggestions. It's interesting to note that somewhere around 3/4 of the packages I checked didn't have any suggestions or recommendations at all, so even if we tried to document all suggestions fully, most packages would be unaffected. ======================================================================= pop-before-smtp Suggests: imap-server | pop3-server Suggests-Reason: imap-server | pop3-server: because pop-before-smtp needs access to the log file of your POP3 or IMAP server. pop-before-smtp scans the logs of your POP3 or IMAP server in order to detect user logins. If the server is running on another computer, you must provide access to its log files on this computer (for instance, by enabling remote syslog access). ======================================================================= ======================================================================= kdeaccessibility-doc-html Suggests: kdebase Suggests-Reason: kdebase: to run the software this package documents. ======================================================================= ======================================================================= kdeartwork-misc Suggests: kworldclock Suggests-Reason: kworldclock: to make use of the kworldclock themes included in this package. ======================================================================= ======================================================================= ttf-bengali-fonts Suggests: x-ttcidfont-conf Suggests-Reason: x-ttcidfont-conf: to automatically register these fonts with the X window system. ======================================================================= ======================================================================= pida Suggests: bicyclerepair Suggests-Reason: bicyclerepair: because bicycle-repair is a useful Python tool that I like. ======================================================================= (I installed both pida and bicycle-repair, and as far as I can tell, this is the only relationship between them. bicycle-repair has IDE plugins...but there doesn't seem to be one for pida) Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
