severity 580179 minor
retitle 580179 Please issue a warning when using pmount-hal without hal
thanks
Paul E Condon wrote:
>> Package hal was not installed on the two failing hosts. I have installed
>> it and now pmount-hal works on all four hosts. I think the depends list
>> for pmount needs some tweeking, perhaps.
>
> I think I can see why adding hal to dependencies would be not good. If
> a user has no intention of using pmount-hal, then installing it is a
> waste of resources. But perhaps code could be added to pmount-hal that
> issues a more helpful warning to a user than the message that I
> reported. e.g.
>
> "Install package hal for this to work."
>
> I think this would be better than putting hal in the suggests list, because
> when I installed pmount, I had no intention of using pmount-hal. It was only
> later that I took an interest in it, and didn't think to check suggests.
Thanks for investigating, I'll try to integrate that in a later release.
Cheers,
Vincent
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