On Friday 24 August 2007, Christoph Pfister wrote:
> Most of the dependencies were turned into "Recommends:" beginning with
> version 1.1.7-2. This renders the package unusable for almost
> (possibly that there's exception; but I can't imagine any) every user
> of the library; except for those people who install the recommended
> packages by default.

A quick quote from policy about Depends:

          The `Depends' field should be used if the depended-on package is
          required for the depending package to provide a significant
          amount of functionality.

(7.2)

I think the set of most used plugins falls into this category. "a significant 
amount of functionality".

I haven't been able to use xine for anything with only the depends installed.

/Sune
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I cannot reset the POP3mail terminale of the forward from Office 5.6, how does 
it work?

From the file menu within Office you either can't click a OpenGL prompt, or 
can't telnet on the clock of the URL on the 47-inch IDE processor.

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