-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Joey,
Joey Hess wrote: > libchipcardc2 is a library, which recommends a package containing a > daemon (chipcardd4), libchipcardc2. > > Making a library depend on or recommend a daemon is rarely a good idea. The libchipcard library's very purpose is to provide access to chipcards, which (for libchipcard) is not possible without a chipcard daemon running (usually locally). Hence most users *want* the chipcard daemon if they install the libchipcard library, that's why libchipcardc2 recommending libchipcard-tools is a perfectly sane default. > In this case, every installation of gnucash, via a complex chain of > recommends and dependencies, ends up with chipcardd4 running. I admit that rarely every Gnucash user will need AqBanking support (which is in the end the reason for installing gnucash causing the chipcard daemon to run) within Gnucash. That's why I [1]suggested Thomas Bushnell, the maintainer of Gnucash, to split the package into a plugin package gnucash-hbci (which actually contains all stuff depending on AqBanking) and the plain gnucash package. This way the users would have a choice whether they want AqBanking support (by trade of having a chipcard daemon running by default) or not. For whatever reason (Lenny freeze timeline?) he didn't follow this suggestion and included AqBanking support in the main package (gnucash) leading to this bug. Granted nobody objects I will reassign this bug to gnucash in the next few days. Regards Micha 1. Granted: I gave no explanation why. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIhw86WN0/4pnhQbQRArfhAKC9NAwE51aw6WoUcZR8HabEgkWo9QCfZo87 Rt7/p/pbX/zTTnRwpHOTqSg= =Eeni -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
