Re: Gratuitous promotion of random binaries to standard
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On Sat, 24 Jan 1998, joost witteveen wrote:
> According to debian policy, every "normal" package should have priority
> "optional", unless
> - it's installation may cause problems with other packages,
> or do very strange things that really only very few people want.
> In this case it should be extra,
> - There are reasons to make it standard or higher priority.
BTW: According to the first point ("may cause problems with other
packages"), it would be very interesting if someone would have the needed
resources and try to install *all* optional packages and see if there are
any conflicts between them...
[ But probably we should better fix the known list of file overlaps ... ]
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