On Sun, 23 May 2010 23:20:45 +0300 Andrei Popescu <andreimpope...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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: I agree that absolute precision is probably impossible, but we can strive toward it. > 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) *That* would really be a great idea. As it is, I'm often left scratching my head trying to figure out what's likely to go wrong, or what functionality will be missing, if I don't install some recommendation. 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/20100523163949.735e3799.cele...@gmail.com
