Santiago Vila <sanv...@unex.es> writes: > On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 02:22:54PM +0200, Ole Streicher wrote: >> What is the idea behind the current structure? > > It all depends on what you call "specialized requirements". > > Unless we rely on popcon to decide what's special and what's not, > this will remain very subjective. > > IMHO, we could well get rid of the "special requirements" thing and > make "optional" maximally useful by raising as many packages as we can > from extra to optional. > > The only rule which is currently useful is the "no conflicts between > optional packages". This has also the good property of being objective.
Ack. This would mark 12.000 more packages as "optional". Why don't we do that? Best regards Ole
