On Fri, 21 May 2010 22:12:20 +0300 Andrei Popescu <andreimpope...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri,21.May.10, 14:43:47, Celejar wrote: > > > But I've long found the 'recommends' concept to be somewhat tricky and > > perhaps to vary from maintainer to maintainer. For example, mesa-utils > > needs GLX, which, practically speaking, means that you need > > libgl1-mesa-dri. The maintainer refuses to make this even a > > recommends, basically since the X server can run on a different machine: > > > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=559223 > > > > Now, I'd bet (although I suppose that I may be wrong) that the vast > > majority of Debian installations have the X server and clients on the > > same machine, and the other case is probably the more 'unusual' one. > > Imagine a large organization with a lot of thin clients... Understood. But what I meant was that an awful lot of people could potentially be hit by this, even if they're installing recommends, which they'd probably assume should take care of this. > > OTOH, acpi-support 'recommends' radeontool, even though this package is > > utterly irrelevant to those without ATI Radeon chipsets: > > > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=562883 > > Oh, I can finally get rid of that one! (used to be a Depends and I > forgot to check) > > Both are excelent examples :) But even if you disagree with the > maintainer, in the end Debian is a do-ocracy. That is, the one who does > the job usually gets to decide how it's done ;) Of course. I was just suggesting that a more precise and consistent definition of 'recommends' would be helpful. Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100523145304.c065e793.cele...@gmail.com
