Re: Feature-Request list for dpkg
Shaya Potter writes:
> [cc: me, as I havn't been able to read the lists in a while ]
>
> I was going through the debian-devel archive and I saw your post on the
> feature request list for dpkg. I suggested a while ago that we have a
> reason field for why a package either reccomends, suggests a package.
> Why? because for a person will be able to override a reccomends, or a
> suggests, so we want to give him some info why he would want it (or why
> he wouldn't want it). With this info, instead of seeing
> xanim suggests mime-support
>
> we would see,
>
> xanim suggests mime-support
> To get xanim to automatically register itself with your machine, so
> programs like netscape can use it automatically, it is suggested that
> you install mime-support along with xanim.
>
> This can make dselect so much more user friendly in the conflict
> resolution screen, it's not funny.
>
> so what do people think.
>
> Shaya
I second that. It's a good idea.
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