Previously Chris Waters wrote: > The problem with the "Enhances" idea (which several people, including > me, mentioned at the time) is that it puts the responsibility on the > wrong package. Yes and no. It's actually a nice addition to the current sent of relations since we had no way for this kind of reverse relation. It's true that for some of the existing relations replacing Suggests with Recommends puts the responsibility on the wrong package. However a reverse relation is the only way to completely remove references to non-main packages from main, which is what this proposal is all about. It's not all about design, there is a political message here as well. We want to be able to have a completely free system and be able to say "here, you can use this and you'll be happy. You don't need anything that's not free at all". If we put weaken Suggest or create a new weaker version of it we don't do that since we still tell people that there are non-free packages that can improve things. Wichert. -- ________________________________________________________________ / Generally uninteresting signature - ignore at your convenience \ | wichert@liacs.nl http://www.liacs.nl/~wichert/ | | 1024D/2FA3BC2D 576E 100B 518D 2F16 36B0 2805 3CB8 9250 2FA3 BC2D |
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