Hi, Russ Allbery: > > Let's assume that I have a large multiuser Debian system. I don't want > > to be bothered by people requesting this or that package all the time, > > so I simply install everything that's of priority <extra. > > Has anyone actually done this in the last five years? I'm extremely > dubious this is a useful thing to do. > I actually did this at one time, for a subset of sections. Until it broke too often. (At the time, filing bugs about that would likely have started yet another fight against windmills. So I didn't.)
> > Or, alternately, I allow "apt-get install --assume-yes" of these > > packages by $COMMON_USER, as Policy states that there shall be no > > conflicts. > > Do you actually do this? Is optional actually conflict-free? I'm pretty > sure it isn't. > No, it's not. But I'd like it to be. However, if a consensus should emerge that it's too much hassle to file bugs against 100 packages (and then have at least half of their maintainers show up in -devel for the first time in $FOREVER, and try to argue that $OTHER_PACKAGE should be in Extra instead, because of $AD_HOC_REASON) then I'd grudgingly be OK with abolishing Optional. -- -- Matthias Urlichs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140826224316.ge21...@smurf.noris.de
