On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 03:56:48PM -0300, Gustavo Franco wrote: > On 8/1/07, Reinhard Tartler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > (...) > > > I tried the sample commands and apt wanted to add HALF A GIGABYTE of > > > unnecessary stuff!!! Others may consider hard disc space cheap but, in > > > truth, hard disc space is not infinite. > > > Please, please, please, reconsider. > > Please stop whining and start contributing. E.g. by filing bugs against > > package (and possibly NMU them) that abuse the Recommends relationship. > I would like to point out that pkg-gnome team already fixed the > gnome-dbg related Recommends in svn; for those with > gnome-desktop-environment installed if it was October 1st, it would > install all the debug enabled packages. Lots of people using GNOME > will see half a gigabyte results that will mean nothing once apt > development team do the change they're planning. Sorry, what do you mean to say here? Are you claiming that having debug packages in Recommends: is somehow a "fix"? I'm quite sure that doesn't fit the Policy definition of Recommends -- debugging applications is not at all relevant to the common case, the common case should be that applications don't need debugged. ;) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
