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Bug#252082: closed by Pierre HABOUZIT <madcoder@debian.org> (Re: kmail: program "lockfile" doesn't exist when requesting FCNTL mail locking)



Le Sam 20 Mai 2006 20:55, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton a écrit :
> "recommends" don't get installed by default.
>
> you therefore have a policy violation bug.
>
> at the very least you need to notify people of the requirement.
>
> l.

not at all. the "recommended" tool to install packages is aptitude, that 
installs recommends by default. It is assumed that people that do not 
use aptitude (or a tool that installs recomends - dselect does IIRC) 
know what they are doing and are aware enough to look at the 
recommends.

this is completely in the debian's philosophy. Recommends are packages 
that gives a big gain to the package that recommends them, but that are 
not *necessary* for it to work. procmail for kmail is exactly in that 
case.
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·O·  Pierre Habouzit
··O                                                madcoder@debian.org
OOO                                                http://www.madism.org

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