Re: Bug#688772: gnome Depends network-manager-gnome
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 04:40:10AM -0400, Chris Knadle wrote:
> On Sunday, October 14, 2012 16:27:29, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> > ]] Ian Jackson
> >
> > > This is particularly true when these users have already decided not to
> > > take the maintainer's advice. By the decision not to install n-m,
> > > those users have already overruled the maintainer for their own
> > > systems. To say that we think the maintainer knows best is going
> > > against the clearly expressed opinion of a user who has deliberately
> > > deinstalled n-m.
> >
> > .. or who just has an old system which didn't have Recommends
> > installation enabled by default, or where it's been disabled since
> > Recommends end up dragging in all kinds of stuff.
>
> This again is a user choice, which the upgrade to Depends would override.
>
> More importantly, this is /not/ a user choice that someone /new/ to Debian
> would make; it takes experience to find out that this option exists,
> and in setting the option the /user/ takes responsibility for the resulting
> behavior, because the setting /overrides/ the default behavior.
While I can't find the references immediately to hand, I distinctly
remember looking at various GNOME developer blogs and list posts
where they were stating that network-manager was not considered a
one-size-fits-all solution, and that it would remain optional
because of that. That was just a few months ago.
Regards,
Roger
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