Hi.

On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 07:36:09AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 02:05:10PM +0300, Reco wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 11:45:07AM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 01:34:50PM +0300, Reco wrote:
> > > > One would think that gnome-www-browser virtual package would fit such
> > > > role perfectly. I mean, if GNOME DE has some special requirement for a
> > > > browser, and Debian already has such aptly named virtual package -
> > > > surely it can be considered as a suitable dependency?
> > > 
> > > It'd be confusing for people not using GNOME.
> > 
> > I lost you here.
> 
> The goalposts were moved in the text that was omitted up there.  "Such a
> role" refers to the hypothetical generic use of gnome-www-browser to
> act as a virtual package (replacing x-www-browser) in all contexts,
> not just the dependency list of gnome-core.
> 
> The statement was that it would be confusing for, say, debian-goodies
> to suggest gnome-www-browser.

I see, thank you.

Reco

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