Re: kydpdict relationships
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> writes:
> Hmm. Let us examine the two common cases:
> a) User has not bought proprietary dictionaries.
> i) With recommends installed by default; they can have a working
> package. Without that, the binary package is useless.
> ii) With Depends, the binary ackage works.
> b) User has proprietary dictionaries.
> i) With recommends, the user can just install the proprietary
> package first. The system works
> ii) With Depends, there is a possible conflict; or else you have a
> useless package installed, whether you want it or not.
> If we are going to transition to installing Recommends by
> default in lenny, I would say go with the Recommends, since it caters
> to more users.
> Or else, use Depends, but that makes the system less efficient
> for those of our users who decide they want a partially proprietary
> solution (which we promise to support as well, as I recall).
Given that we're talking about only 500KB or so, Depends seems more
attractive to me as being a bit more reliable and working in more
configurations, *provided* that the presence of the free dictionary
doesn't break the non-free one when they're both installed. Which I think
was left as an open question from the original message.
(I currently can't ues Recommends by default because of lsb-release, so I
have a bit of a vested interest in solutions that don't require that.)
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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