Francesco Tapparo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> My complaint is that dselect offer to install the Suggested package, hinting
> to the user to install it: this strike again the Debian spirit.
We have already discussed this in great detail. Two proposals that
were put forth that both seem reasonable to me are:
a) suggestions of packages that aren't available will not be
displayed (so that someone who doesn't have non-free packages in her
package list will not see the suggestion).
b) providing some form of "reverse-suggests" so that non-free
packages can suggest themselves if and only if they are in someone's
package list.
Note that the common element of both proposals is that someone who has
non-free packages in her package list will see them, and someone who
doesn't won't. This really seems like the best approach all 'round.
I tend to favor the former proposal myself because it's simpler and
probably requires less hacking of existing code. But I have removed
non-free suggests from packages I'e adopted in the mean time. (As a
compromise, I mention the non-free package -- saying it's non-free --
in the package description.)
Back when non-us was all lumped together, this was a more contentious
issue; now that non-us is divided properly (about time imo!), it may
be time to reopen the issue, I'm not sure. I *am* sure that it would
make RMS happy if we finally got this resolved, but RMS isn't in
charge of Debian, so....
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