Re: Depends vs. Recommends

2006-07-17 Thread Frank Küster
Helmut Wollmersdorfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IMHO these options give you the choice. I disagree to change > recommends' to 'depends', because it should be the users choice to > install 'minimal' or 'full', but this choice should be as convenient > as possible. > > Nowadays it is more or less

Re: Depends vs. Recommends

2006-07-17 Thread Helmut Wollmersdorfer
Frank Küster wrote: Jens Peter Secher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: To ease upgrades, transitions, etc., dependencies (Depends) should be kept to the absolute minimum. There's always a tradeoff: The easiest system to upgrade is one that runs, but is barely usable for anything... 'usable' -

Re: Depends vs. Recommends

2006-07-17 Thread Frank Küster
Jens Peter Secher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Adam Borowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 10:11:41AM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: >>> >>> I agree that that is a common type of file to recover, so that would >>> make it more appropriate to Recommend cpio rather than Su