On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 20:46, Jeff Waugh wrote: > So, I find myself telling people about obscure packages that have really > useful stuff in them all the time due to the new popularity for finely > granular packaging.
Yeah... > [...] how are they going to be magically installed > to satisfy the needs of any user that will want the functionality? This is quite simple, actually. The "fontilus" package will depend on "gnomevfs-method-fonts". So from the fontilus user's point of view, there is really no change. "aptitude install fontilus" or whatever will just pull in another package. But someone who wants just the gnome-vfs method can install only the method package. The reason I want to break this up is because currently, fontilus just Recommends: nautilus. Which is rather broken in a way; fontilus really should Depend on nautilus; it's just the GnomeVFS method that doesn't. I suppose I could just make fontilus Depend: nautilus now, but then people who want just the GnomeVFS method can't get it without pulling in a vast swath of GNOME and X. I dunno...if people don't like the idea, then I will just make fontilus Depend: nautilus and forget about it.
