Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <po...@debian.org> writes:
> On 02/03/11 04:24, Scott Kitterman wrote:
>> It seems to me not worth a mass bug filing. This doesn't seem like
>> something
>> that would affect user's systems. Is there a rationale for imposing this
>> ordering other than puiparts can't deal with it?
>
> If you have non-free enabled and install a package from main, it should
> install
> the dependencies from main. So you should have e.g. "rar | rar-nonfree"
> instead
> of the other way round.
>
> Cheers,
> Emilio
I disagree. If non-free has a superior implementation of a package and
the user has non-free configured then it should prefer the non-free
package.
In the case of rar the free version, last I checked, could basicaly
handle none of the rar files in use because only the stoneage rar
formats were supported. Using the non-free version gives a huge
improvement on the functionality.
On the other hand, a case of "Depends: xpdf | acroread" (I had to come
up with something :) should probably stay that way. For 90+% use cases
xpdf is sufficient.
I feel it should be left up to the maintainer which order to use with a
recommendation to list main packages first unless there is a good reason
why non-free should be prefered.
MfG
Goswin
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