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Re: Bug#4064: sendmail should recommend deliver, not depend



Richard Kaszeta:
> Please, don't 'depend' on things unless they are *really* needed.

OTOH, if not depending on it will let inexperienced people get easily
in trouble, then by all means do depend on something that isn't strictly
needed. Hackers can use --force.

	E = Nu * Tu + Nh * Th

where E is total effort spent solving user problems and answering
questions about Debian, u is inexperienced user, h is hacker, Ni is the
number of questions from class i user, and Ti is average time to answer
question from class i user.

Typically, Tu is about the same as Th, but Nu >> Nh, so we want to
minimize Nu.

However, I don't have an opinion on whether Depends or Recommends is the
better solution for sendmail.

-- 
Lars Wirzenius <liw@iki.fi> <http://www.iki.fi/liw/>
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