Re: Priorities overrides? Extra?
Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es> writes:
> On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 02:22:54PM +0200, Ole Streicher wrote:
>> What is the idea behind the current structure?
>
> It all depends on what you call "specialized requirements".
>
> Unless we rely on popcon to decide what's special and what's not,
> this will remain very subjective.
>
> IMHO, we could well get rid of the "special requirements" thing and
> make "optional" maximally useful by raising as many packages as we can
> from extra to optional.
>
> The only rule which is currently useful is the "no conflicts between
> optional packages". This has also the good property of being objective.
Ack. This would mark 12.000 more packages as "optional". Why don't we do
that?
Best regards
Ole
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