Am Dienstag, den 25.09.2007, 12:23 +0200 schrieb Simon Richter: > Hi, > > Sebastian Dröge wrote: > > >> Would it make sense to demote the dependency on the hal daemon to a > >> Recommends (after all, the hal "client" library should deal with the > >> daemon not running anyway)? > > > gnome-mount depends on hal as it doesn't work at all without hal. > > Well, gnome-mount should never be installed on an autobuilder IMO. > > > libnautilus-burn should depend on gnome-mount as it can't do some stuff > > if gnome-mount is not available. If this is a recommends only, people > > that don't install recommends have a unusable library lying around. > > That sounds like "recommends", TBH. The fact that apt used to not > install Recommends by default has led to way too stringent > relationships; I don't see a problem with packages that are largely > unusable without a recommended package as long as they handle the > situation gracefully.
Ok, but even if it is recommends, as apt install recommends by default won't it be installed in the buildd chroots too? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
