On mar., 2011-08-30 at 16:11 +0100, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > > I agree that a general change of all metapackages is probably not a good idea, > but I think that changing the root-nodes of the metapackage tree (i.e. > metapackages like gnome, xfce4, kde-full, ...) is a sensible change. It is in > particular one that solves the problems without the need to introduce new > package fields, change packaging tools or their semantics.
If you think some dependencies in those metapackages are unneeded or too strong, you're welcome to open a wishlist bug against them. For xfce4, while I'm open to discussion, the distinction between depends/recommends/suggests is intended, and at first sight I don't see a need to change it. On a totally different scale, is it a good idea that automatic installation of recommends is recursive? It is a really tricky question, and I'm not sure there's *one* answer. In some cases you really want them (well, as long as you want automatic recommends), but not all. Regards, -- Yves-Alexis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1314718667.2150.3.camel@oban