Hi Guus, Quoting Guus Sliepen (2017-01-30 11:29:17) > On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 11:19:32AM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > > > > Fredrik, the plugin already recommends pavucontrol (which recommends > > > pulseaudio) so it should already have been installed unless you manually > > > asked > > > not. But right, it might be a good idea to have a direct pulseaudio > > > recommends . > > > > A pulseaudio plugin without a pulseaudio "Depends" seems rather pointless > > But xfce4 Depends on xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin. Maybe it is better if that > became a Recommends then?
I'd say yes, but that would be a _different bug, and depends on how that metapackage is intended to behave. For each _direct_ package relation, question is if related packages a needed for _all_ uses of the package (depend), there is a rare use without it (recommend) or it is only uncommonly needed (suggest). If it _never_ makes sense to install xfce4 metapackage without also installing xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin (i.e. if xfwm4 crashes without that plugin existing), then it makes sense to declare strict as a dependency. Argument above by Michael is that it sounds like it _never_ makes sense to install xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin without also installing pulseaudio. Example: If xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin can somehow communicate (by itself, without help from pulseaudio package!) with a remote pulseaudio install on a separate host, then it makes sense for the package relation to be a recommendation. If you cannot describe a single use case for this package without its related package, then depend on that other package (no matter needs of _reverse_ related packages further up the stack!). - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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