On mar., 2016-09-27 at 16:20 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Package: gtk2-engines-murrine > Version: 0.98.1.1-6 > Severity: normal > > I want to install greybird-gtk-theme, and only that theme. But due to > gtk2-engines-murrine recommending murrine-themes, effectively I get a > bunch of themes when I wanted only one.
Then just don't install recommends, or remove murrine-themes afterwards. > > Package relationships are _directional_: I do know about that… > > Having murrine-themes recommend greybird-gtk-theme is sensible, because > (some of) its contents has little use without the contents of that other > package. Actually murrine-themes recommends the various -gtk-themes because they were once included in the package, and are not split out. So in order to prevent breakage for users, we chose to add the recommends so the themes are installed by default, like before. So it's completely unrelated to the usefulness, murrine-themes can work perfectly fine without greybird-gtk-theme. > > Having gtk2-engines-murrine recommend recommend murrine-themes is less > sensible, as its contents is perfectly usable without the contents of > that other package. The point of that recommends is that gtk2-engines-murrine by itself doesn't do anything (it's just a gtk2 engine), you usually want themes with it, thus the recommendation. > > What would be sensible is to a) drop gtk2-engines-murrine recommends on > murrine-themes, and b) have murrine-themes declare that it _enhances_ > gtk2-engines-murrine (i.e. a reverse suggestion). Are enhances / reverse suggestion actually handled by the various package managers? I mean, are they installed by default when installing the enhanced package? Because that's what we want to achieve. > > NB! I notice the recommendation is versioned. If reason for that is to > avoid older versions being outright broken (e.g. due to bug#827134), > then it does not work as intended (only versioned _depends_ is certain > to be obeyed). Use a versioned _breaks_ instead. so something like: Recommends: murrine-themes Breaks: murrine-themes (<< 0.98.1) ? Regards, -- Yves-Alexis
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