Bug#362253: Neither discover1, laptop-detect, mdetect nor xresprobe are needed

2006-04-14 Thread Frans Pop
severity 362253 important thanks On Friday 14 April 2006 06:52, Russ Allbery wrote: Well, I run discover on all my systems as a matter of course, so I suppose I'm not the most sympathetic of audiences. I've not had those problems with it. That is not an argument. If it were a dependency

Bug#362253: Neither discover1, laptop-detect, mdetect nor xresprobe are needed

2006-04-13 Thread Daniel Stone
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 05:40:03PM -0700, James Blanford wrote: They bloat the system, clog the harddrive, complicate package management, require continual maintenance, open security holes and worst of all, slow the boot process significantly. I think this is the sentence where I stopped

Bug#362253: Neither discover1, laptop-detect, mdetect nor xresprobe are needed

2006-04-13 Thread James Blanford
On 13 Apr, Daniel Stone wrote: On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 05:40:03PM -0700, James Blanford wrote: They bloat the system, clog the harddrive, complicate package management, require continual maintenance, open security holes and worst of all, slow the boot process significantly. I think this is

Bug#362253: Neither discover1, laptop-detect, mdetect nor xresprobe are needed

2006-04-13 Thread Daniel Stone
On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 11:07:18AM -0700, James Blanford wrote: On 13 Apr, Daniel Stone wrote: On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 05:40:03PM -0700, James Blanford wrote: They bloat the system, clog the harddrive, complicate package management, require continual maintenance, open security holes and

Bug#362253: Neither discover1, laptop-detect, mdetect nor xresprobe are needed

2006-04-13 Thread Russ Allbery
James Blanford [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That's to be expected. My concerns are _user_ concerns not _developer_ concerns. But, really, laptop-detect??? My three year old knows the difference between a laptop and a desktop. In that case, perhaps you could package your three-year-old for

Bug#362253: Neither discover1, laptop-detect, mdetect nor xresprobe are needed

2006-04-13 Thread Marc Wilson
On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 04:43:20PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Well, I do. Depends is also used for package configuration. If the package can't configure itself without those packages, Depends is appropriate. The problem with discover, IMHO, is that once it gets installed, it's not going to

Bug#362253: Neither discover1, laptop-detect, mdetect nor xresprobe are needed

2006-04-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 04:43:20PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Well, I do. Depends is also used for package configuration. If the package can't configure itself without those packages, Depends is appropriate. The problem with discover, IMHO, is that

Bug#362253: Neither discover1, laptop-detect, mdetect nor xresprobe are needed

2006-04-12 Thread James Blanford
Package: xserver-xorg Version: 1:7.0.10 When I upgraded to this version of xserver-xorg, I was required to also install discover1, discover1-data, libdiscover1, mdetect, xresprobe laptop-detect and dmidecode as dependencies. Debian policy states, The Depends field should be used if the