On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 02:26:04AM -0400, Kevin Mark <kmark+debian-devel@pipeline.com> was heard to say: > On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 12:34:21PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 08:32:35PM +0200, "Steinar H. Gunderson" <sgunderson@bigfoot.com> was heard to say: > > > Would it help having our metapackages use all Recommends instead of Depends? > > > > No, because people like to turn off the installation of recommendations > > and then file bugs when major functionality is missing from packages :-/. > > > > Daniel > Hi DDs, > I was thinking of a feature that would show 'recommends' but add a line > line explaining what installing package X would add to the currently > selected package. It would be helpful for the users to know that. > > Not every users is a guru and has hours on-end to figure out how > packages are related. It would be a great user help to see a bit of info > so that when you install/upgrade some app says 'hey if you want this > feature, install foo'. > > Although I'm not sure which app(frontend: synaptic,aptitude,..) > should/could add this feature. here would be possible output: > > ... There's a much simpler approach to this problem, which is to explain recommendations and suggestions in the package's description. Some packages do this already, but I don't think there's even a recommendation one way or the other (e.g., in the best practices documents). Daniel
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