Bug#248610: kdelibs-bin should depends on menu-xdg

[Christopher Martin <christopher.martin@utoronto.ca>]

Hello,

On May 12, 2004 07:09, Bill Allombert wrote:
> I receive lots of bugs report of KDE user that do not have a menu
> anymore.

Yes, we got a bunch as well.

> I think kdelibs-bin should depends on menu-xdg for sarge:
>
> 1) menu-xdg is a very small package so there is no real gain to not
> have it installed.

menu-xdg depends on menu, and many people don't necessarily want menu 
installed. Some window managers (i.e. blackbox) change completely their 
menus based on whether or not the menu package is installed.

> 2) you can disable menu-xdg functionality by removing the conffiles it
> provide, so you do not need to remove it.

True, but menu will still be installed, and having users manually delete 
files isn't really a good solution. Perhaps the menu package could add a 
Suggests (or even Recommends) on menu-xdg, and add a line or two 
explaining what it's for.

Also, someone here should really update the kdelibs documentation, since 
it makes no mention of menu-xdg. And kicker should Suggest menu-xdg as 
well, and document why. Mainly, I think if the KDE packages had done a 
better job of advertising and documenting this change when the split was 
made, then the problem would have been manageable.

Cheers,
Christopher Martin