Quoting Michael Biebl (2020-07-04 00:42:57) > Am 04.07.20 um 00:16 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: > > Then how about _not_ recommend iwd but just lower from depending on > > wpasupplicant to only recommending it. Because that's what it is: > > Recommended for all except special situations. For now... Right? > > Hm, no. That's exactly the situation I want to avoid. The user > installing iwd, removing wpasupplicant in the process, network not > working anymore. A Recommends makes that even worse. Either iwd works as > a drop-in replacement (without requiring explicit configuration) or not. > That's basically my question. > If it does, I'm happy to add an alternative Depends assuming Andreas is > fine with that.
I understand that neither you nor Andreas consider current release of IWD a _recommended_ alternative for wpa-supplicant. That is a good reason to not depend on or recommend iwd. I do not understand, however, why you will not relax relationship on wpa-supplicant to recommend it instead of depending on it. There are use-cases of network-manager without wpa-supplicant, when either wifi is not used, or when IWD is used instead. Again, I do understand that such use-cases are not _recommended_ but they are still _possible_ and _wanted_ for some unusual situations. Debian Policy says to use Recommends: not Depends: for such relations. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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