On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Gordon Sadler wrote: > On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 01:10:34PM -0600, Ivan E. Moore II wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 08:55:59PM +0200, Tomas Pospisek wrote: > > > Package: kdebase > > > Version: 4:2.1.1-0.potato3.1 > > > Severity: wishlist > > > > > > I *don't* want to run any service as klisa on my machine, so I am asking > > > to please change the dependency from recommends to suggests, so that > > > dselect is not bugging me all the time. > > > > In future releases it will be a suggests...tho I really hate that idea. > > > > <rant> I think it's STUPID that I have to remove a recommend when my > > intention > > is to recommend. WTF do we have recommends for if users just want them > > removed all the time. </rant> > > > I would say, leave recommends as is. If a user is using dselect, either > they know how to resolve dependencies by hand... or they are the type > who just wants it to work out-of-the-box. If they are using apt from the > commandline, they might be prepared to deal with suggests/recommends by > hand.
Do whatever makes the most sense with apt, since dselect is going to disappear at some point, right. I think some of the problem(?) is because of what task-kde is; if the task was either the entire KDE distribution, or just the bare minimum, there would not be a problem because users would know what they are getting. Since the task is somewhere in between those two extremes... everybody has a different idea of what should be included. Like Ivan said (in response to my request to have klisa removed from the task-kde/unstable a week or so ago), `tasks don't work as well as was expected'. I guess we are going to have to live with it until something better comes along[1]. - Bruce [1] Hmmm, user defined tasks and a task-editor tool.
