Bug#289189: Change Recommends to Requires
> Change Recommends to Requires
It's actually Depends...
> I think that IMAP access is pretty fundamental to KMail.
Yes, I agree. However, the definitions of Depends and Recommends are pretty
clear:
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Depends
This declares an absolute dependency. A package will not be configured unless
all of the packages listed in its Depends field have been correctly
configured.
The Depends field should be used if the depended-on package is required for
the depending package to provide a significant amount of functionality.
The Depends field should also be used if the postinst, prerm or postrm scripts
require the package to be present in order to run. Note, however, that the
postrm cannot rely on any non-essential packages to be present during the
purge phase.
---
Recommends
This declares a strong, but not absolute, dependency.
The Recommends field should list packages that would be found together with
this one in all but unusual installations.
---
As a normal user, one should install all recommended packages unless there's a
particular reason against it.
> If it's not going
> to pop up a message saying something to the effect of "You can't check mail
> across this type of protocol without installing the kdepim-kio-plugins
> package" then kdepim-kio-plugins should be installed by default along with
> KMail.
That could be a good idea.
That said, I would personally not mind kmail depending on kdepim-kio-plugins,
but that's not my decision to make.
Thanks,
*/ Christoffer Sawicki <qerub@home.se>
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