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Re: Bug#90867: Menu is more important than it would seem



On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 07:35:46PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > them, but I can't think of any package whose functionality is in anyway
> > enhanced by the use of the menu package.
> 
> Huh?
> 
> I find all of the window manager packages to be enhanced by installing menu.

Agreed.  Even twm now uses menu right out of the deb.


> Why don't we make menu standard? For the same reason debhelper
> is not build essential, no doubt.

debhelper often needs versioned deps, so maybe it's better that it not be
build-essential.  menu there's no excuse, it should be at least standard.

-- 
Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org>                Free software developer

<doogie> dpkg has bugs?  no way!

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