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Re: Building GTK programs without installing dconf-service?



Quoting Simon McVittie (2019-08-14 17:59:00)
> On Wed, 14 Aug 2019 at 14:24:26 +0200, Simon Richter wrote:
> > The long term question remains though -- I dimly remember that we 
> > once had the same discussion about a library pulling in rpcbind, and 
> > that made a lot of people very unhappy at the time.
> 
> I think this is a bit of a lose/lose situation: if we downgrade the 
> Depends to Recommends, as long as there is an (IMO unwise) meme that 
> globally disabling Recommends is the right thing to do for "efficient" 
> and "minimal" systems, people will install GTK programs on their 
> desktops with Recommends disabled, and be surprised (and/or open 
> high-severity bugs) when settings aren't saved as a result.

Please follow Debian Policy, and let those misguided souls have their 
surprises.


 - Jonas

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