Re: Comments on Debian packages and installation

[Raul Miller <rdm@test.legislate.com>]

Kristoffer.Rose@ENS-Lyon.FR <Kristoffer.Rose@ENS-Lyon.FR> wrote:
> > > If all packages that "Suggests:" hugs should explicitly name
> > > "non-free/hugs" then they will have to change when hugs moves.
> > 
> > Oh, I thought you were talking about "Enhances:".

Kristoffer.Rose@ENS-Lyon.FR <Kristoffer.Rose@ENS-Lyon.FR> wrote:
> "Enhances:" has the same problem because it is "non-local" (as someone
> already remarked).  In a nutshell: the maintainer of "zip" has to keep
> track of all the packages that are enhanced by "zip" ... that is all the
> packages that today "Suggests:" zip.

That's two instances of unzip, two versions of midnight commander, and
one other package.  Big deal. 

And, to put things in perspective: keeping track of those is trivial
compared to the effort that would be involved in doing a complete rewrite
of zip, to enable the use of that functionality as an official part
of Debian.

-- 
Raul