On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 07:29:02PM +0100, Tomasz Kundera wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 5:26 PM, KatolaZ <kato...@freaknet.org> wrote: > > > > > > To be honest, I think there is no final solution to this issue, unless > > you opt for a completely centralised (and nazist, in a good way) > > package maintenance policy, which leaves the decision on "Depends", > > "Recommends" and "Suggests" in the hands of a small group of people, > > or ideally of a single benevolent dictator, who has given the divine > > power to decide for the masses :) But this is (or at least was) rather > > inefficient (the benevolent dictator should have a comprehensive > > knowledge on all the dozens of thousands of packages included in a > > distribution) and, most importantly, definitely far from what Debian > > wanted to be.... > > > > IMHO the former Debian policy was a good solution. If a package needs > something to work, or to work reasonable it should depend on it. Depends > must be installed with it. If a package gets some more, especially not > always needed, feature with installation of another package it should > recommend it. Recommends should not be installed by default. > It will be no problem for newbies as they most probably will install via > tasksel or metapackages which can depend on "Recommends". It will be then > no problem for VUAs as they will pick exactly what they want. >
That's exactly my point, and I agree that Recommends should not be installed by default. Perhaps the addition of a few metapackages depending on Recommends would be more than enough in most of the cases. My2Cents KatolaZ -- [ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ --- GLUG Catania -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ me [at] katolaz.homeunix.net -- http://katolaz.homeunix.net -- ] [ GNU/Linux User:#325780/ICQ UIN: #258332181/GPG key ID 0B5F062F ] [ Fingerprint: 8E59 D6AA 445E FDB4 A153 3D5A 5F20 B3AE 0B5F 062F ] _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
