Bug#362253: Neither discover1, laptop-detect, mdetect nor xresprobe are needed

2006-04-14 Thread Frans Pop
severity 362253 important thanks On Friday 14 April 2006 06:52, Russ Allbery wrote: > Well, I run discover on all my systems as a matter of course, so I > suppose I'm not the most sympathetic of audiences. I've not had those > problems with it. That is not an argument. > > If it were a dependen

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Bug#362253: Neither discover1, laptop-detect, mdetect nor xresprobe are needed

2006-04-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 04:43:20PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Well, I do. Depends is also used for package configuration. If the >> package can't configure itself without those packages, Depends is >> appropriate. > The problem with discover, IMHO, i

Bug#362253: Neither discover1, laptop-detect, mdetect nor xresprobe are needed

2006-04-13 Thread Marc Wilson
On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 04:43:20PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Well, I do. Depends is also used for package configuration. If the > package can't configure itself without those packages, Depends is > appropriate. The problem with discover, IMHO, is that once it gets installed, it's not going to

Bug#362253: Neither discover1, laptop-detect, mdetect nor xresprobe are needed

2006-04-13 Thread Russ Allbery
James Blanford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That's to be expected. My concerns are _user_ concerns not _developer_ > concerns. But, really, laptop-detect??? My three year old knows the > difference between a laptop and a desktop. In that case, perhaps you could package your three-year-old for

Bug#362253: Neither discover1, laptop-detect, mdetect nor xresprobe are needed

2006-04-13 Thread Daniel Stone
On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 11:07:18AM -0700, James Blanford wrote: > On 13 Apr, Daniel Stone wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 05:40:03PM -0700, James Blanford wrote: > >> They bloat the system, clog the harddrive, complicate > >> package management, require continual maintenance, open security > >>

Bug#362253: Neither discover1, laptop-detect, mdetect nor xresprobe are needed

2006-04-13 Thread James Blanford
On 13 Apr, Daniel Stone wrote: > On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 05:40:03PM -0700, James Blanford wrote: >> They bloat the system, clog the harddrive, complicate >> package management, require continual maintenance, open security >> holes and worst of all, slow the boot process significantly. > > I think

Bug#362253: Neither discover1, laptop-detect, mdetect nor xresprobe are needed

2006-04-13 Thread Daniel Stone
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 05:40:03PM -0700, James Blanford wrote: > They bloat the system, clog the harddrive, complicate > package management, require continual maintenance, open security holes > and worst of all, slow the boot process significantly. I think this is the sentence where I stopped pay

Bug#362253: Neither discover1, laptop-detect, mdetect nor xresprobe are needed

2006-04-12 Thread James Blanford
Package: xserver-xorg Version: 1:7.0.10 When I upgraded to this version of xserver-xorg, I was required to also install discover1, discover1-data, libdiscover1, mdetect, xresprobe laptop-detect and dmidecode as dependencies. Debian policy states, "The Depends field should be used if the depended-