On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 04:40:10AM -0400, Chris Knadle wrote: > On Sunday, October 14, 2012 16:27:29, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > ]] Ian Jackson > > > > > This is particularly true when these users have already decided not to > > > take the maintainer's advice. By the decision not to install n-m, > > > those users have already overruled the maintainer for their own > > > systems. To say that we think the maintainer knows best is going > > > against the clearly expressed opinion of a user who has deliberately > > > deinstalled n-m. > > > > .. or who just has an old system which didn't have Recommends > > installation enabled by default, or where it's been disabled since > > Recommends end up dragging in all kinds of stuff. > > This again is a user choice, which the upgrade to Depends would override. > > More importantly, this is /not/ a user choice that someone /new/ to Debian > would make; it takes experience to find out that this option exists, > and in setting the option the /user/ takes responsibility for the resulting > behavior, because the setting /overrides/ the default behavior.
While I can't find the references immediately to hand, I distinctly remember looking at various GNOME developer blogs and list posts where they were stating that network-manager was not considered a one-size-fits-all solution, and that it would remain optional because of that. That was just a few months ago. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools `- GPG Public Key F33D 281D 470A B443 6756 147C 07B3 C8BC 4083 E800 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
