cyteen wrote: > I was wondering about the policy of some packagers to use depends rather > than recommends in a case where an upstream source has added support for, > but not a reliance on, some service. I can understand that a build-dep on > the dev package would be seem desirable but in the case of pulseaudio and > avahi for instance it makes them almost impossible to remove without gutting > your system. > > I understand that these may not be at the top of devuans agenda but I'm > interested in the general policy to be taken it someone were to undertake to > repackage more reasonably.
Also, I recall that in a default Debian install, recommended packages are pulled in by default. A setting change makes it possible to only pull in the package dependencies. -- Joel Roth _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
