Re: Unable to connect to my home wireless
On Sun, 23 May 2010 23:20:45 +0300
Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun,23.May.10, 14:53:04, Celejar wrote:
>
> > > Both are excelent examples :) But even if you disagree with the
> > > maintainer, in the end Debian is a do-ocracy. That is, the one who does
> > > the job usually gets to decide how it's done ;)
> >
> > Of course. I was just suggesting that a more precise and consistent
> > definition of 'recommends' would be helpful.
>
> IMHO, I doubt it would help. There will always be cases where it is very
> difficult to draw the line between Depends: vs Recommends: (see the not
> very long ago flames about making xorg depend on hal) and also
> Recommends: vs Suggests:
I agree that absolute precision is probably impossible, but we can
strive toward it.
> An interesting proposal a while ago was to be able to add some more
> information to Suggests:, something like:
>
> Package: acpi-support
> Suggests: radeontool (backlight control for ATI Radeon based laptops)
*That* would really be a great idea. As it is, I'm often left
scratching my head trying to figure out what's likely to go wrong, or
what functionality will be missing, if I don't install some
recommendation.
Celejar
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