Bug#438665: Orphaned packages with quite some users

2007-11-01 Thread Frans Pop
Bart Samwel wrote: > 2. What we may actually require is a detection system which triggers the > installation of packages at installation time, based on hardware > detection. You should contact Petter Reinholdtsen, who has been working on a new life for the package discover to do exactly that. He

Bug#438665: Orphaned packages with quite some users

2007-10-31 Thread Joey Hess
Bart Samwel wrote: > I wouldn't mind having the packages installed in the laptop task if that > fixes it. However, the laptop task currently uses the task-fields method, > which AFAICT means that the dependent packages should list themselves as > being part of the laptop task, something that wil

Bug#438665: Orphaned packages with quite some users

2007-10-31 Thread Bart Samwel
Joey Hess wrote: Raphael Hertzog wrote: The problem is not so much on manually installed package but on initial installation. I'm not sure what would get installed via the laptop task if we made that a Recommends... d-i can't afford to install recommends by default (best way to change that is

Bug#438665: Orphaned packages with quite some users

2007-10-31 Thread Luk Claes
Bart Samwel wrote: > tag 438665 wontfix > merge 438665 445900 > thanks > > Clint Adams wrote: >> reopen 438665 >> quit >> >> On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 06:22:11PM +0100, Luk Claes wrote: >>> That sounds like the Dependens should be a Recommends, if so please file >>> a bug for it. >> >> It doesn't lo

Bug#438665: Orphaned packages with quite some users

2007-10-31 Thread Joey Hess
Raphael Hertzog wrote: > The problem is not so much on manually installed package but on initial > installation. I'm not sure what would get installed via the laptop task if > we made that a Recommends... d-i can't afford to install recommends by default (best way to change that is to make all use

Bug#438665: Orphaned packages with quite some users

2007-10-31 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Adeodato Simó wrote: > * Bart Samwel [Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:32:57 +0100]: > > Hello Bart. While I understand your reasoning, it may be now the time to > revisit it: > > > or Recommends which > > behaves exactly like Depends (like some package managers treat Recommends, > > bu

Bug#438665: Orphaned packages with quite some users

2007-10-31 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Bart Samwel [Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:32:57 +0100]: Hello Bart. While I understand your reasoning, it may be now the time to revisit it: > or Recommends which > behaves exactly like Depends (like some package managers treat Recommends, > but not all), As announced in [1] and can be seen in [2], a

Bug#438665: Orphaned packages with quite some users

2007-10-31 Thread Bart Samwel
tag 438665 wontfix merge 438665 445900 thanks Clint Adams wrote: reopen 438665 quit On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 06:22:11PM +0100, Luk Claes wrote: That sounds like the Dependens should be a Recommends, if so please file a bug for it. It doesn't look like #438665 was actually fixed. OK, then I

Bug#438665: Orphaned packages with quite some users

2007-10-31 Thread Clint Adams
reopen 438665 quit On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 06:22:11PM +0100, Luk Claes wrote: > That sounds like the Dependens should be a Recommends, if so please file > a bug for it. It doesn't look like #438665 was actually fixed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib