On 01/14/2015 07:52 AM, KatolaZ wrote: > > in some of the cases a Recommend is simply unnecessary (like exim4 > recommended by mutt) > *** This sounds like a misuse. It should be Suggests. I get the logic of "recommending" an SMTP server for a mail client, but there are many different implementations and many different use cases of a mail client including some that do not require an SMTP server. I guess Mutt should "suggest" an SMTP server, not a specific one anyway.
So we're talking about two different setups: one wants to keep the bloat away ; the other wants to pull in as much functionality as it can to ensure no missing feature will surprise the user. I would certainly favor the former, conservative approach, and leverage Blends to make meta-packages that pull in Recommends. That way, a Devuan install would always remain minimalist, but then it would make it easier to create workhorse Blends. I think this will be useful when people wants to make specific distributions for mobile phones or some proprietary hardware. == hk -- _ _ We are free to share code and we code to share freedom (_X_)yne Foundation, Free Culture Foundry * https://www.dyne.org/donate/ _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
