On Wednesday 02 February 2005 15:10, Adeodato Simó wrote:
> kppp has an _absolute_ dependency on ppp (Christopher says so, and he
> knows better than I), so there you go with the Depends. OTOH, see
> Bug#289189 for an example where using Depends: would help some people,
> but it is not don
> I understand your concern, but the real problem is that metapackages are a
> crude solution to a general problem. If you don't need one of the
> packages installed by a metapackage, you could simply uninstall the
> metapackage. Perhaps, though, a nicer solution would be for the
> metapackages to
On February 2, 2005 08:36, Michail Bachmann wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 February 2005 14:11, Christopher Martin wrote:
> > Believe me, we get a ton of reports from new users whose packages
> > don't work because they didn't install the Recommends. But that's not
> > why I made kppp depend on ppp - I d
* Michail Bachmann [Wed, 02 Feb 2005 14:15:51 +0100]:
> > BTW, kppp without ppp is a nice window in your desktop useless.
> So what? Do I have to use it?
You have a point, but: what determines if we put something as Depends
or as Recommends is not what will confuse our users less. What
det
On Wednesday 02 February 2005 13:46, Matías Costa wrote:
> > Maybe it would be better if kdenetwork would only recommend kppp and not
> > depend on it, but I can see a rationale in that decision, kdenetwork
> > being a metapackage and used by different kind of users.
>
> That's it, you can make ha
On February 2, 2005 04:04, Michail Bachmann wrote:
> > If you're on a LAN, why are you using kppp? It would be helpful if
> > you could explain your situation in more detail.
>
> Because unfortunately there is a dependency relation which leads to
> kppp: kde->kdenetwork->kppp.
OK.
> Maybe it woul
El Miércoles 02 Febrero 2005 10:04, Michail Bachmann escribió:
> On Wednesday 02 February 2005 03:09, Christopher Martin wrote:
> > On February 1, 2005 18:23, Michail Bachmann wrote:
> > > The dependency on ppp changed from Recommends in 3.3.1-2 to Depends in
> > > 3.3.2-1.
> > >
> > > Since KDE is
* Christopher Martin [Tue, 01 Feb 2005 21:09:42 -0500]:
> If you're on a LAN, why are you using kppp? It would be helpful if you
> could explain your situation in more detail.
$ apt-get install kde
;-)
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On Wednesday 02 February 2005 03:09, Christopher Martin wrote:
> On February 1, 2005 18:23, Michail Bachmann wrote:
> > The dependency on ppp changed from Recommends in 3.3.1-2 to Depends in
> > 3.3.2-1.
> >
> > Since KDE ist perfectly useable on a LAN without ppp I dont understand
> > the reason f
On February 1, 2005 18:23, Michail Bachmann wrote:
> The dependency on ppp changed from Recommends in 3.3.1-2 to Depends in
> 3.3.2-1.
>
> Since KDE ist perfectly useable on a LAN without ppp I dont understand
> the reason for changing this dependency.
If you're on a LAN, why are you using kppp? I
Package: kppp
Version: 3.3.2-1
Severity: normal
The dependency on ppp changed from Recommends in 3.3.1-2 to Depends in
3.3.2-1.
Since KDE ist perfectly useable on a LAN without ppp I dont understand
the reason for changing this dependency.
CU Micha
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