On Sun,23.May.10, 14:53:04, Celejar wrote: > > 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.
IMHO, I doubt it would help. There will always be cases where it is very difficult to draw the line between Depends: vs Recommends: (see the not very long ago flames about making xorg depend on hal) and also Recommends: vs Suggests: An interesting proposal a while ago was to be able to add some more information to Suggests:, something like: Package: acpi-support Suggests: radeontool (backlight control for ATI Radeon based laptops) Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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