Bug#362253: Neither discover1, laptop-detect, mdetect nor xresprobe are needed
James Blanford <Xorguser@cox.net> writes:
> That's to be expected. My concerns are _user_ concerns not _developer_
> concerns. But, really, laptop-detect??? My three year old knows the
> difference between a laptop and a desktop.
In that case, perhaps you could package your three-year-old for Debian and
then we could offer that as an alternative to laptop-detect?
I don't really understand the substance of this objection. A person being
able to tell the difference between a laptop and a desktop and having an
automated computer program do so in order to minimize user prompting
(which, I'll point out, is a frequently expressed *user* concern, not a
developer concern) are a bit different.
> I notice you have no response to the Debian policy I quoted.
Well, I do. Depends is also used for package configuration. If the
package can't configure itself without those packages, Depends is
appropriate.
Now, given that aptitude pulls in Recommends by default, I can see the
argument for reducing the dependency to Recommends *if* there's a
reasonable alternative configuration that doesn't require any of these
utilities. But, particularly since we're talking about *user* concerns
rather than developer concerns, I have to say that *users* do not expect
to hand-write xorg.conf files. *Users* generally cannot cope with
operating systems that expect them to do that. Improved
auto-configuration is something the X team has worked on specifically to
address user concerns.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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