Re: kdebase: please remove dependency on klisa
On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Gordon Sadler wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 01:10:34PM -0600, Ivan E. Moore II wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 08:55:59PM +0200, Tomas Pospisek wrote:
> > > Package: kdebase
> > > Version: 4:2.1.1-0.potato3.1
> > > Severity: wishlist
> > >
> > > I *don't* want to run any service as klisa on my machine, so I am asking
> > > to please change the dependency from recommends to suggests, so that
> > > dselect is not bugging me all the time.
> >
> > In future releases it will be a suggests...tho I really hate that idea.
> >
> > <rant> I think it's STUPID that I have to remove a recommend when my intention
> > is to recommend. WTF do we have recommends for if users just want them
> > removed all the time. </rant>
> >
> I would say, leave recommends as is. If a user is using dselect, either
> they know how to resolve dependencies by hand... or they are the type
> who just wants it to work out-of-the-box. If they are using apt from the
> commandline, they might be prepared to deal with suggests/recommends by
> hand.
Do whatever makes the most sense with apt, since dselect is going to
disappear at some point, right. I think some of the problem(?) is
because of what task-kde is; if the task was either the entire KDE
distribution, or just the bare minimum, there would not be a problem
because users would know what they are getting. Since the task is
somewhere in between those two extremes... everybody has a different
idea of what should be included.
Like Ivan said (in response to my request to have klisa removed from
the task-kde/unstable a week or so ago), `tasks don't work as well as
was expected'. I guess we are going to have to live with it until
something better comes along[1].
- Bruce
[1] Hmmm, user defined tasks and a task-editor tool.
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