Quoting Adam Borowski (2017-06-06 15:55:48) > More seriously, though, let's go through the list of 94 unsatisfied > ones on my desktop; the list below is transposed to collate > recommendees. > > > Categories: > OK: "Recommends:" looks warranted > DEBATABLE: duh. > BLOAT: potentially useful but I wouldn't make it a Recommends > BAD: downgrade please > TRANSITIVELY BAD: useful for a direct user but not when pulled via a > dependency -or- causes this lower in the chain > > > > bash-completion: bash dput-ng licensecheck > * DEBATABLE: I like the Tab key to do something reasonable, > "bash-completion" means you never know what you'll get. I don't understand what is debatable here. Please consider filing a bugreport against licensecheck to start that debate (if not here). > fonts-noto-cjk: fonts-noto > * BLOAT: unlike greek/runes/etc, you can't learn Chinese hieroglyphs on a > whim, thus it's useless for most users. You may want a _single_ CJK font > so you can tell whether a text is in C, J or K but that's it. The very purpose of Noto fonts is large coverage (no "tofu" chars), and the very purpose of "fonts-noto" package specifically is described as "Use this package if you want all Noto fonts". If you disagree with that, then avoid fonts-noto altogether, don't try redefine its prupose. > ghostscript: gimp imagemagick-6.q16 libmagickcore-6.q16-3 netpbm > * BAD: why would editing images care about a grossly obsolete _document_ > format? Because some (most except you, I guess!) don't consider PDF "obsolete". > gnupg-l10n: gnupg > * DEBATABLE: I don't think anyone tech skilled enough to use GPG would have > problems with English, but localization is important. On the other hand, > this is 4.5MB in the default install. We should not actively make GnuPG _harder_ for newcomers to use. > libclass-xsaccessor-perl: libmoo-perl > * BLOAT: wut? This and other lib*-xs-perl recommendations are faster implementations that you commonly want: An example (exotic!) need for avoiding those is when bootstrapping a new architecture. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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