On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 04:54:36PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > 2. Our technical objectives do NOT include: [...] > (iii) Users who choose to globally disable Recommends should still > get the desired behaviours as described above in point 1.
This whole "NOT" part is very confusing to me. I think you're trying to say here that enable/disabling Recommends globably isn't something you care about, just that there is the possibility to remove it if desired by the user. > > 3. The solution recommended by the gnome-core maintainers is > that users who do not wish to use network-manager should have it > installed but disable it. > > Installing network-manager in these circumstances does > not fully meet any of the above objectives apart from 1(i). > > 5. The alternative solution rejected by the gnome-core maintainers > is downgrade the dependency to Recommends. > > This solution meets all of the objectives from point 1, except > that infelicities in teh package manager may mean that the user ^^^ the Kurt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ctte-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120808222248.ga26...@roeckx.be