Re: the Recommends control field (was: dselect survey)
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004, Thaddeus H. Black wrote:
> (a) The social interpretation: a Recommended
> package is one the maintainer recommends
> to his users, in the usual English-
> language sense of the word "recommends".
Hmm... that is certainly NOT how it should be used. We really should have
called "recommends" "weak-depends" or something.
> As review of the archive Packages file shows,
> both interpretations (a) and (b) enjoy the
> practical support of scores of maintainers.
Time to reword policy, so that it is clear what Recommends is supposed to be
used for, IMHO.
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where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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