Bug#908804: [task-desktop] Move xserver-xorg-video-all to recommends
Control: tags -1 - pending
Control: tags -1 + wontfix
Hrr, copy-and-paste error
Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> wrote:
> Control: tags -1 + pending
>
> Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> wrote:
> > On 09/14/2018 09:03 AM, Alexander Kernozhitsky wrote:
> > > Package: task-desktop
> > > Version: 3.45
> > > Severity: wishlist
> > >
> > > Now task-desktop depends on xserver-xorg-video-all, which forces to have all
> > > the video drivers in the system, even if they appear unused. I suggest to move
> > > xserver-xorg-video-all into Recommends and depend on xorg-driver-video (to
> > > force the system to have at least one video driver installed).
> > >
> > I don't think this makes sense. There's little cost to having unused
> > drivers around (hell, installing the kernel package gets you loads more
> > that you can't opt out of), and installing a single random driver is
> > typically not going to get you anything.
>
> Alexander's proposal makes sense when it comes to creating a minimalistic
> system for example.
> This is however not the approach behind this tasks from tasksel; they have to
> serve a maximum of hardware and user configurations, and especially need to fit
> for unexperienced users.
> Experienced users or people with special requirements will have the knowledge,
> how to make their system suitable for their needs.
> That's not the scope of tasksel and its tasks.
>
> So tagging this bug as wontfix
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Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org>
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