On Sat, 26 Apr 2008, Santiago Vila wrote: > While it made possible to install all of optional, the idea of this > policy was never that someone install all of optional. The idea was > that when browsing the package list, a user could actually choose > *whatever* set (small or big) of optional packages he/she wishes > without fear of conflicts.
So in the current state, you have packages which should be optional, save for the fact that they may conflict with other optional packages (say, for transition purposes) or depend on non-optional packages, but insead must be demoted to extra. This makes the idea of browsing only the list of optional packages fairly useless, because you must also browse the extra set of packages to get the set of packages that could conceivably be normally installed. Don Armstrong -- A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless. -- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
