Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 12/18/05 10:24 CST: [CCing to BLFS-dev]
> I felt printing was a reasonable addition to gimp, so I recommended it. > There is a note, in addition to the usual command explanations, > explaining what to do if you don't want it. So, going forward, is it because of "conventions" (as was explained in the commit message for Gimp) or because an Editor "feels it is reasonable" to arbitrarily make something "recommended". I "feel" that you should have the GNOME desktop installed if you are going to run Gnumeric. So, does that mean we should add GNOME as a required dependency, and remove the --without-gnome switch? My thoughts are we offer a technical solution to building packages from the source code. However, the technical accuracy is being distorted. Dependencies are being recommended (and the instructions modified accordingly) on now what appears to be emotional and/or opinionated decisions. There never used to be "recommended" dependencies. The first ones were put in the KDE instructions (I'm pretty sure about that, but not positive) because it is listed on the *maintainer's* web site that those packages are "recommended" so that KDE is functionally sane. After KDE, some packages had dependencies recommended when the package didn't build with full functionality without the dependency and there was no switch to tell the build to omit it. Okay. Reasonable I suppose. Now, it appears that we are recommending dependencies, and modifying the book accordingly, on opinions. It shouldn't be that way. Opinions are way too subjective, and what one guy thinks is important, is needless to another. Oh well, sorry for the rant. I am just against adding opinion and "feelings" into what should be technical advice. -- Randy rmlscsi: [GNU ld version 2.15.94.0.2 20041220] [gcc (GCC) 3.4.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.4] [Linux 2.6.10 i686] 10:28:00 up 84 days, 19:52, 3 users, load average: 0.61, 0.70, 0.72 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
