On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 21:54 +0200, Bart Samwel wrote: > I'm sorry you have limited space.
It isn't about limited space, but flexibility > Still, I'm not willing to add a breakage possibility for standard > functionality, just to accommodate laptops that are going to be eight or > nine years old by the time the next Debian release comes out (it's a > laptop from about 2000, right?). No, it is a Dell 6400 from 2007, bought new a month or so before debconf. Not all laptops with ACPI have nVidia or ATI graphics cards. > We've considered many options for splitting up the package into > smaller chunks, and all of the options simply break functionality if > recommended packages are not installed automatically (an option which > is easily enabled in e.g. aptitude), with no way of telling the user > why things don't work as expected. IIRC, recommends are installed automatically these days, even with apt-get. Options for telling the user include big scary warnings from the init script or syslog messages or some kind of dbus notification. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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