Quoting Simon McVittie (2019-08-14 17:59:00) > On Wed, 14 Aug 2019 at 14:24:26 +0200, Simon Richter wrote: > > The long term question remains though -- I dimly remember that we > > once had the same discussion about a library pulling in rpcbind, and > > that made a lot of people very unhappy at the time. > > I think this is a bit of a lose/lose situation: if we downgrade the > Depends to Recommends, as long as there is an (IMO unwise) meme that > globally disabling Recommends is the right thing to do for "efficient" > and "minimal" systems, people will install GTK programs on their > desktops with Recommends disabled, and be surprised (and/or open > high-severity bugs) when settings aren't saved as a result.
Please follow Debian Policy, and let those misguided souls have their surprises. - 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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