Re: no{thing} build profiles
On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 04:40:34PM +0000, Ivan Shmakov wrote:
> >>>>> Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org> writes:
> >>>>> On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 11:12:57PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> >>>>> On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 01:22:12PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>
> […]
>
> >>> I think the prerequisite for making a change like this would be for
> >>> the library to be able to surface this transitive requirement in
> >>> metadata so that debhelper could support automatically adding it
> >>> to the dependencies of all linked programs (and I’m not sure that
> >>> sort of collapse of our dependency structure is a good idea).
>
> >> That would be a bad idea – we don’t want gratuitous dependencies
> >> all around. Just because I use xfce doesn’t mean I want a daemon
> >> for some old kinds of iApple iJunk
>
> > Why not? What does it cost you, other than a few bits on your hard
> > disk, to have those things installed?
>
> > It is an actual cost for users who do not (want to) understand the
> > technical background in why their iSomething doesn’t communicate with
> > Debian properly, and it costs *us* time in support questions if we
> > have to explain to them that they just need to install this one
> > little thing here that takes a few MB (if that; haven’t checked).
>
> It works both ways, actually. I’ve recently seen a problem
> with a newly installed system ending up with /two/ configured
> IPv4 addresses (where one was expected.) The cause of this
> surprise? Recommends:¹.
>
> More specifically, the admin there installed isc-dhcp-client and
> configured interfaces(5) accordingly. He also installed lxqt,
> which Recommends: cmst, which in turn Depends: connman (entirely
> appropriately, I guess, as the former is a GUI for the latter),
> which /also/ configures network interfaces.
That is a bug in connman. NetworkManager is configured in Debian to
ignore interfaces that were configured through /etc/network/interfaces.
I would suggest that connman should do the same.
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