Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes: > Bdale Garbee writes: >> Gergely Nagy <alger...@balabit.hu> writes:
>>> As a user, my expectation is that if I install a *meta* package, then >>> the whole platform will be installed, and will be kept >>> installed. That's the main reason I install meta packages. >> I comprehend you, but to me the difficulty is in defining what "the >> whole platform" means and thus where the boundary should lie. In the >> current case, if someone says "I want Gnome", do they really expect >> that to include network-manager to the exclusion of all other options, >> or might they reasonably expect to be able to use wicd, or something >> else, as an alternative? > Quite. > It has also been suggested that gnome-session would be a better > package to install, but of course that excludes all of the gnome > applications - which is probably what the user wanted in this case. Do we know for certain that installation of network-manager excludes alternatives? Tollef replied to me on debian-devel wondering why people who don't want to use network-manager just disable it, which implies that there's some means to turn it off while it's still installed. (I don't think I ever investigated that.) I'm not sure how significant that is to the decision, but it sounded like people are assuming that having network-manager installed excludes use of wicd or something else, so I want to be sure people aren't making decisions based on false premises. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
