Gergely wrote: >Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <h...@debian.org> writes: > >> IMO, metapackages should "depend" on the absolutely required stuff (and many >> times that will be the empty set), "recommend" the rest, and maybe even >> "suggest" fringe packages. This achieves maximum usability for more >> usecases, and malfunctions only in the unsupported case of "no install >> recommends by default" -- you should skip recommends always in a >> case-by-case basis. > >That also achives maximum annoyance, because if I want the full >platform, I'll have to go recommends/suggest hunting. (No, I'm *not* >going to turn on install-recommends.)
Right. So you're arguing that all the packages should be listed as Depends: to make *your* life easier, when you're doing something different from what's recommended. Thanks for showing how much weight we should attach to your argument. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com Google-bait: http://www.debian.org/CD/free-linux-cd Debian does NOT ship free CDs. Please do NOT contact the mailing lists asking us to send them to you. -- 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/e1sp3l1-0004mw...@mail.einval.com
