reassign 548661 general thanks On Mon, 28 Sep 2009, Stefan Monnier wrote: > reopen 548661 > thanks
Please don't play ping-pong with bugs. Start a discussion on -devel if you want to get input on how to properly solve your problem, but it's far from being a reasonable wishlist request for dpkg at this point. > But as seen in bug#542095, some dependencies are not really hard, yet > you don't want them to be "recommends" because that would be too easy > for users to ignore. So bug#542095 shows that there is a need for > something between "recommends" and true dependencies that can only be > ignored if the user very specifically requests to ignore this precise > dependency (I already ignore all recommends). I don't agree that we need something in between. You decide what you want to install. the gnome meta-packages doesn't correspond to what you want? don't install it and install the various components by hand or create an alternative meta-package. You come up with this request only because Josselin Mouette doesn't want to drop network-manager to a Recommends or put an alternative in place. The solution exists but because the maintainer doesn't want to implement it, you request a third way to respond to your need under control of the user. How is that reasonable ? > Do you find my request unreasonable? Currently, yes. > What alternative solution do you > propose if I want to both have wicd and gnome installed? Or if my > system is memory constrained and I want xserver-xorg installed but > not hal? Or ...? gnome is not required at all, it's only a meta-package, don't install it but install manually all the other dependencies. For the xserver, talk to the X maintainers or use a lighter distribution. > > Improvements for handling meta-packages are possible but it's all in the > > realm of apt and co, not dpkg. > > Then please reassign the bug-report accordingly rather than closing it. I reassign it to general, I can't reassign it anywhere else because there's absolutely nothing to implement yet... and I doubt you can come up with a sane design to respond to your wishes. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-bugs-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
