On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 02:55:53PM -0400, Christopher Martin wrote: > On April 25, 2004 13:10, Dominique Devriese wrote: > > Why is menu-xdg only a Recommended by kdelibs-bin ? IIUC, it is > > needed for Debian policy conformance, and as such should be a hard > > depends, no ? > > The question of which package should document and/or have a package > relationship with menu-xdg is separate from the question of the proper > strength of the package relationship. > > As to this second issue, the Debian Menu System documentation, Ch. 5, > states: > > --------- > Please, do not make your package depend on the menu package! The preferred > way of telling dpkg that your wm can cooperate with menu is: > > Suggests: menu > > Please only consider using "depends" if you feel providing reasonable > defaults for systems without menu will make life very difficult for you. > --------- > > If I understand correctly, all that Menu Policy requires of KDE is that it > give users the option of using the Debian menu system. A Depends is not > at all required, since not everyone wants to have the Debian menu system. > So a Recommends is more than enough - in fact, we really should downgrade > menu to a Suggests. GNOME, blackbox, etc. all Suggest menu. No one > Depends on it. > > Interestingly, the part of GNOME that Suggests menu is gnome-panel. Maybe > kicker should do the same, instead of kdelibs-bin.
The part of kde that reads the menu is actually in kdelibs-bin "/usr/bin/kde-menu" which is used by various apps that ask you what to open something with. So at the very least kdelibs-bin would also have to have the suggests along with possibly kicker... That was the reason the menu's were first moved to kdelibs-bin before being split out into their own separate package. Chris
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