On 19/11/2010 12:29, David Kalnischkies wrote: > xfce4-mcs-manager recommends it. > As APT has no indication that this package can go away it does the > only right thing (TM): Chooses to keep xfce4-mcs-plugins as otherwise > the user will lose functionality… > (recommends are defined as installed on all, expect "unusual" systems, > so their value is very close to a depends for APT)
Except it's not. System would be perfectly usable with xfce4-mcs-plugin and without xfce4-mcs-manager (it wouldn't make much sense, but still). Preferring to ignore a Breaks: in order to keep a Recommends: satisfied looks to me like the wrong thing to do, though I'm not fluent enough in dependencies to be sure. By the way, adding a Breaks: xfce4-mcs-manager in xfce4-settings doesn't work either, apt will still prefer to hold xfce4-session and keep xfce4-mcs-*. Cheers, -- Yves-Alexis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4ce66692.1050...@debian.org
