On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 11:34, Vincent Cheng <vincentc1...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 8:45 PM, Aron Xu <happyaron...@gmail.com> wrote: >> reassign 579893 src:conky >> retitle 579893 src:conky: enable more features in conky packages >> thanks >> >> I think in conky-std, there are too few features enabled, however >> conky-all is in contrib, this gives main users no chance to have more >> features usable (curl, rss, etc). So I reassign and retitle this >> report to a more general one. There are two ways of enabling more >> features for "main" users, by adding a new binary, or changing >> conky-std. This is up to the maintainer's decision, so I haven't >> created the patch. >> >> Comments? >> > > I agree (in fact, I was planning to address this issue in a future > upload). Looking at conky's popcon scores, there are relatively few > conky-std users compared to conky-all (61 vs 2102), so instead of > adding yet another conky binary, I'd rather just enable more features > in conky-std, i.e. the ones that are more commonly used. Features that > have very specific uses, or are only useful to a small subset of conky > users (e.g. nvidia support, eve support, IBM/lenovo support, etc.) > won't go in conky-std. >
I think it depends on what additional dependencies will be pulled in when adding the features. This requires a lot of testing, by building the package with different settings again and again. If the dependency is fine then there is no reason not to include the feature even if they have relatively smaller user base. -- Regards, Aron Xu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
