On Sun, Jun 14, 1998 at 08:39:41PM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: > Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > I have been running Linux for some two years and Debian for more than one, > > and certainly haven't required MC yet. Even standard would be inappropriate > > I think -- standard is for things which are standard on a Unix system, > > and should probably be as strict as possible to keep the size down. > > Optional remains appropriate. > > I don't want to turn this into a favorite-file-manager-flame-thread, but > I'd like to point out that Debian has agreed to go with the GNOME project as > a 'standard' desktop GUI (instead of KDE), and guess what, MC is the > 'standard' file-manager of the GNOME desktop. Second, there are things that > are 'standard' in Debian that aren't 'standard' everywhere else (like the > slang lib). My statement was simply meant as a strong endorsement of MC, > nothing more. It wasn't meant to start an argument over what > 'standard'/'required'/'recommended' should mean.
But `standard' has two different meanings here. X is our standard windowing system, but the X packages are priority: optional. Priority: standard implies that it is a standard Unix feature. slang is standard because other packages which are standard dependent on it -- like the base system in hamm. A package can only depend on packages with higher priority than itself. Just because a particular tool is Debian's standard does not mean that it is priority `standard', or even that it is standard. It's not necessarily standard to have an interactive file manager installed, for example. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]