[email protected] wrote these words on 01/19/10 06:15 CST: > Author: wblaszcz > Date: 2010-01-19 05:15:41 -0700 (Tue, 19 Jan 2010) > New Revision: 8219 > > Modified: > trunk/BOOK/general.ent > trunk/BOOK/gnome/add/gnome-mount.xml > trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml > Log: > Updated to gnome-mount-0.8. > + <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead> > + <para role="recommended"><xref linkend="nautilus"/></para> > + > <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead> > - <para role="optional"><xref linkend="nautilus"/>, > - <xref linkend="libnotify"/>, > - and <xref linkend="intltool"/></para>
I know it was a couple of months ago that we discussed all this moving dependencies from optional to recommended. I believe you didn't participate in the discussion. But what was determined was that we would identify *why* things are recommended. You completely dismissed that. I've been just sitting back watching, and you continue to change almost every package to "recommend" something. I disagree with most of your recommendations that I've seen. I've kept quiet because I didn't want to stifle your work, and I'm not exactly the biggest contributer. I'm going to go through the entire GNOME section and its required dependencies and see how many are now recommended, when simply mentioning what it would do in parenthesis in the optional section would be preferred. Wayne, I truly appreciate the work you are doing. I kept up the GNOME section for years, before you did this last update. I know how much time is involved, but at this point I thought I'd remind you that we *did* discuss this dependency issue and we (the community) came to a consensus. You for whatever reason seem to just disregard it. I am not a big fan of "recommending" optional dependencies just because an editor feels it makes the package "better". And without some sort of explanation why the dependency is recommended, it is then just editor choice, which we determined we wouldn't do any longer. -- Randy rmlscsi: [bogomips 1003.22] [GNU ld version 2.16.1] [gcc (GCC) 4.0.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.6] [Linux 2.6.14.3 i686] 06:38:00 up 23 days, 11:46, 1 user, load average: 0.27, 0.08, 0.02 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-book FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
