Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hmm. Let us examine the two common cases: > a) User has not bought proprietary dictionaries. > i) With recommends installed by default; they can have a working > package. Without that, the binary package is useless. > ii) With Depends, the binary ackage works. > b) User has proprietary dictionaries. > i) With recommends, the user can just install the proprietary > package first. The system works > ii) With Depends, there is a possible conflict; or else you have a > useless package installed, whether you want it or not.
> If we are going to transition to installing Recommends by > default in lenny, I would say go with the Recommends, since it caters > to more users. > Or else, use Depends, but that makes the system less efficient > for those of our users who decide they want a partially proprietary > solution (which we promise to support as well, as I recall). Given that we're talking about only 500KB or so, Depends seems more attractive to me as being a bit more reliable and working in more configurations, *provided* that the presence of the free dictionary doesn't break the non-free one when they're both installed. Which I think was left as an open question from the original message. (I currently can't ues Recommends by default because of lsb-release, so I have a bit of a vested interest in solutions that don't require that.) -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
