Hello David, On Thu, Nov 23 2017, David Kalnischkies wrote: > On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 05:18:37PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: >> > "cowsay-offensive". In this situation the "-offensive" package can >> > be Suggested by the core package(s), but should not be Recommended >> > or Depended on, so that it is not installed by default. > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > While it seems to be a reasonable explanation for why it should be at most > a suggests, this half-sentence is hardcoding behaviour of a specific > package manager in its current default configuration into policy. > > "Installed by default" is something policy is speaking of in the context of > priorities only. In the context of dependency relations it is speaking > only about how reasonable it is for the average user of a package to not > install this other package [which can, but doesn't need to be the same]. > > Personally, I would vote for just dropping the half sentence as the use of > Suggests follows directly from its definition – as the whole point of a > maintainer introducing an -offensive package is very likely that it is > "perfectly reasonable" to not install it: Why introducing it otherwise? Thank you for your feedback. I see what you mean. I second the patch revised to exclude this half-sentence. -- Sean Whitton
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