On Fri,21.May.10, 14:43:47, Celejar wrote: > But I've long found the 'recommends' concept to be somewhat tricky and > perhaps to vary from maintainer to maintainer. For example, mesa-utils > needs GLX, which, practically speaking, means that you need > libgl1-mesa-dri. The maintainer refuses to make this even a > recommends, basically since the X server can run on a different machine: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=559223 > > Now, I'd bet (although I suppose that I may be wrong) that the vast > majority of Debian installations have the X server and clients on the > same machine, and the other case is probably the more 'unusual' one. Imagine a large organization with a lot of thin clients... > OTOH, acpi-support 'recommends' radeontool, even though this package is > utterly irrelevant to those without ATI Radeon chipsets: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=562883 Oh, I can finally get rid of that one! (used to be a Depends and I forgot to check) Both are excelent examples :) But even if you disagree with the maintainer, in the end Debian is a do-ocracy. That is, the one who does the job usually gets to decide how it's done ;) Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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