Re: [PROPOSED] Change package relations policy to remove references to non-free from main

[Tomasz Wegrzanowski <maniek@beer.com>]

On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 10:06:39PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> 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.

cause there are still some non-free packages that can improve things

btw: this make dpkg even slower than it is now
its the worst thing we can do
it is heavily too slow actually