On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 10:06:39PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Chris Waters wrote: > > The problem with the "Enhances" idea (which several people, including > > me, mentioned at the time) is that it puts the responsibility on the > > wrong package. > > Yes and no. It's actually a nice addition to the current sent of > relations since we had no way for this kind of reverse relation. > > It's true that for some of the existing relations replacing Suggests > with Recommends puts the responsibility on the wrong package. However > a reverse relation is the only way to completely remove references > to non-main packages from main, which is what this proposal is all > about. It's not all about design, there is a political message here > as well. We want to be able to have a completely free system and be > able to say "here, you can use this and you'll be happy. You don't > need anything that's not free at all". If we put weaken Suggest or > create a new weaker version of it we don't do that since we still > tell people that there are non-free packages that can improve things.
cause there are still some non-free packages that can improve things btw: this make dpkg even slower than it is now its the worst thing we can do it is heavily too slow actually
