Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com> writes: > Someone asks you to install a package.
> If the package has priority "optional", you can just install it. The > vast majority of the time, it won't conflict with anything else you have > installed. Yes, there are exceptions, but for this use case, them being > pretty rare is sufficient. > If the package has priority "extra", you can look around for an > alternative with priority "optional", install that instead, and tell the > user what you've done. Just to provide more anecdata here, I have done exactly this as well. > I believe this is concrete. Whether it's worth the packager effort is > another question, but this is a real use case and it is something people > do. Yup. My feeling is that the data quality is low enough that we at least need to provide considerably better guidance to packagers or ftp-master or *someone* than we do right now if we want to this to be consistently usable. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
