On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 12:19:43 +0100
Ciaran McCreesh <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 13:14:40 +0200
> Michał Górny <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 12:03:28 +0100
> > Ciaran McCreesh <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Have you seen how Exherbo solved the same problem? exheres-0 has
> > > 'suggested' and 'recommended' dependencies, which are variations
> > > on post dependencies. Suggested dependencies are displayed (along
> > > with a description explaining what they do for the packages
> > > suggesting them) but not taken by default, and recommended
> > > dependencies are taken (but shown as just being recommended)
> > > unless the user says not to.
> > 
> > Seems to me like just another configuration file for user to cope
> > with.
> 
> You obviously didn't pay attention, since the configuration file is
> the least relevant bit of the whole thing. If you really think that
> too many configuration files is a bigger problem than making
> reinstalls suddenly not reinstall stuff, though, then tracking
> not-taken suggestions is trivial.
> 
> Having real world experience with all of this, I can assure you that
> configuration files are not what cause user difficulties.

Ah, I missed the point of not having to rebuild packages.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny

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