On 01-06-17 Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 10:32:41AM -0700, tony mancill wrote:
> > One of my packages, ripperx, currently depends upon splay. The bug is
> > asking why depend upon one particular mp3-decoder when there are several
> > to choose from. (In other words, "don't install an mp3player on my box if
> > I already have one.") I agree that the choice of splay is arbitrary, as
> > would be mpg321 or any other mp3player available in main, and I can set up
> > ripperx to use any of these.
> Some people are too fussy.. if there is no difference in the quality of
> the results (ie the only difference between choice of decoders is
> the amount of disk space used), I think it's OK to require a particular
> one.
So you want to tell us, that a) hard disk are cheap and instead of
complaining about installing more then one package for a simple task,
one should buy another hard disk and install two, three or more packages
for one task? And b) you want to say, that it's fine if software starts
depending on a particular ofter software? So instead of giving users the
choice to use the software they want to use for a certain task or job,
we force users now to use exactly one software for this task because the
upstream of some other software uses it and ignore the choice of the
users?
Christian
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