On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 01:30, Jeff Waugh wrote: > <quote who="Colin Walters"> > > > 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. > > Ahr, but that is the very simplest case of all. ;-)
Sure; the simple (common) case is handled cleanly. > It's worth doing (I think it would be useful, anyway) if the maintainership > and user issues are easily handled, so perhaps it should be a MAY in the > guidelines. ;-) I understand what the maintainership issues are, but what other user issues are you thinking of? As for making it a "may" in the guidelines...sure. Although I tend to prefer "It is recommended that..." to give a bit of force, while still not technically being a "should" or even a "may".
