Re: xserver-xorg rdepends

["Michael 'Mickey' Lauer" <mickey@vanille-media.de>]

Am Friday 17 October 2008 19:09:04 schrieb Koen Kooi:
> On 17-10-2008 17:55, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote:
> > Phil wrote:
> >> Historically, the general policy for RDEPENDS has been that it should
> >> list only those packages which are absolutely required for the software
> >> in question to do anything useful.  For example, shared libraries
> >> without which you can't run the binary at all; interpreters without
> >> which you can't invoke the script; supporting datafiles without which
> >> the program will immediately crash, that kind of thing.  If the program
> >> can run and do at least something useful without a given package being
> >> installed, we have not usually considered it to be a hard dependency.
> >> These kinds of "soft dependencies" have traditionally been a matter of
> >> DISTRO and/or MACHINE policy, being handled either through task
> >> packages, PACKAGE_INSTALL, RRECOMMENDS, or some similar mechanism.
> >
> > I agree. Consider this a vote for turning this into a RRECOMMENDS or
> > dropping it completely.
>
> You're a bit behind the times :)

Heh, thanks for confirming, I've built up a massive backlog :)

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