Le mardi 10 juillet 2012 à 17:38 +0900, Miles Bader a écrit : > What's wrong with Recommends: in that case? It seems to perfectly > match the "makes life easier for <common but not universal use-case > XXX>" scenario you describe.
Recommends is wrong for metapackages because it gets upgrades very wrong. This is why it is used very marginally. > A hard package-dependency in a case like this, when there isn't > actually any hard functional dependency, and there are issues with the > depended-upon package, are decidedly user-unfriendly. It is unfriendly to the extreme minority of users who want a specific selection of packages rather than the default metapackages. Accidentally these are the users who also have the ability to make their own package selection. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' `- -- 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/1341927163.10559.1.camel@pi0307572
