On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 07:55:09PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 22:38:37 +0200, Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > On 11090 March 1977, Marcin Owsiany wrote: > >> Now I need to decide what the relationship between these two should > >> be. > > > Depends. > > Hmm. Let us examine the two common cases: > a) User has not bought proprietary dictionaries. > i) With recommends installed by default; they can have a working > package. Without that, the binary package is useless. > ii) With Depends, the binary ackage works. > b) User has proprietary dictionaries. > i) With recommends, the user can just install the proprietary > package first. The system works > ii) With Depends, there is a possible conflict; or else you have a > useless package installed, whether you want it or not.
I don't think the other dictionaries conflict each other. > If we are going to transition to installing Recommends by > default in lenny, I would say go with the Recommends, since it caters > to more users. > > Or else, use Depends, but that makes the system less efficient > for those of our users who decide they want a partially proprietary > solution (which we promise to support as well, as I recall). Sounds like a good strategy. I'll make it Recommends, as it will be better for people using systems like an armel-based nokia (hi, Piotr) which I suppose doesn't have a particularily large mass storage. If it turns out that recommends won't be installed by default for lenny, I can easily turn it into a Depends. > > But we dont care about those non-free files, as they wont ever end up > > in a thing where you could add some relation in your package control > > data. > > Sure, but the proprietary .deb could use Enhances :). I would be quite astonished if there ever was a deb of any of the proprietary dictionaries :) -- Marcin Owsiany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://marcin.owsiany.pl/ GnuPG: 1024D/60F41216 FE67 DA2D 0ACA FC5E 3F75 D6F6 3A0D 8AA0 60F4 1216
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