On Sun, 9 Sep 2012 00:30:41 brian m. carlson wrote: > Debian users depend on the package being built in a consistent way. For > example, some packages are built with Kerberos support. While this is > generally optional for most packages, I'd be very upset if, say, the > Debian openssh-server package suddenly lost support for Kerberos because > the maintainer or someone doing an NMU didn't have the appropriate -dev > package installed, since it would mean that package would suddenly fail > to work in a major way for me. Your proposed solution would remove an > important safety check.
Thanks for your brilliant explanation of problem. You're certainly right but your example is also a case of possible abuse of an idea because you describe Kerberos as important feature which shouldn't be optional. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201209091109.51782.only...@member.fsf.org
