Bug#291904: kde: x-window-system-core dependency level should be increased to recommendation

[Christopher Martin <christopher.martin@utoronto.ca>]

On January 23, 2005 16:38, Filipus Klutiero wrote:
> If kde really only suggests X, that means that the team judges that
> most users who want kde would want it even without a local X server.

> The lists.d.o thread actually talks about kde-core, not kde. That is
> another thing that should be evaluated. Are people running only
> kde-core (and even kdebase) less likely to want a local X server? I
> doubt so, and suggest that the x-window-system-core suggestion of kde
> is removed in favor of a x-window-system-core recommendation of
> kdebase.

Most all X-dependent packages do not declare a dependency (or Recommends, 
Suggests, etc.) on an X server. The Suggests we put in was deliberately 
part of the meta-package, since its sole function is to remind people 
installing a new Debian system, and who are installing kde, to also 
install X. To move the Suggests to kdebase would therefore be exceedingly 
unusual, as would strengthening it to a Recommends, since that might 
imply that only xfree86 worked well with KDE, which is not the case.

Cheers,
Christopher Martin