Re: Unmet Deps revisted

[Steve McIntyre <stevem@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Santiago Vila writes:
>>> smail is still optional, but conflicts with exim, so it should be extra.
>>> hello-debhelper conflicts with hello, and has absolutely no extra
>>> functionality over ordinary hello, so the binary should be removed, in
>>> either case it should be extra.
>>> gmc conflicts with mc, but both are optional.
>>>
>>> There are in total *ten* dselect Dependency/conflict resolution screens.
>>> (using the PageForward key). Am I *really* required to report them *all*,
>>> or may I ask our kind ftp.debian.org maintainers to do a *serious*
>>> dependency/conflict check *before* the deep freeze?

Am I missing something here? Where does it say that users should be able
to install _all_ optional packages?

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