David Golden wrote: >The 'recommends' flag is not equivalent to Debian recommends. The intent >should be made clear for authors and the toolchain. If the Debian >definitions are adopted to better match usage by packagers, a 'suggests' >field should be added as well. (Adam Kennedy)
There's too little that we can meaningfully do with optional dependencies, so introducing another flavour of them wouldn't help. The only consistently meaningful way to handle recommendations of non-prerequisite modules is to describe them, and the intended interaction, in the current module's documentation. The META file is completely the wrong place for this sort of information. -zefram
