tag 410918 + wontfix thanks Hello,
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Francois Gouget wrote: > I have a Sony laptop so the toshset package does absolutely nothing for > me and I should not have to install it.i > > So acpi-support should Recommend toshset rather than Depend on it. > > This way a default installation would install the package, but users who > have limited diskspace (e.g. my 6GB) would be able to remove irrelevant > dependencies without leaving the acpi-support package in a broken state. > > The same approach should be applied to readeontool too (I have a Neomagic > card), and possibly vbetool too. > > I checked the 0.90-4 release and it has the same set of dependencies. We're talking of 310kb here. No, I'm not going to remove the dependencies for this, in particular when acpi-support already takes more than twice this size. We have scripts that use those tools, so it's logical to depend on them. There's the case where you take your harddrive out and put it in a new laptop. There's also a potential problem with CD building, without the depends we might provide acpi-support without those important packages on some incomplete CD set. Thus tagging wontfix. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Premier livre français sur Debian GNU/Linux : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/
