Ian Jackson writes ("Re: Bug#688772: gnome Depends network-manager-gnome"):
> Don Armstrong writes ("Bug#688772: gnome Depends network-manager-gnome"):
> > That's what I'm confused about too, but I'm assuming that there is
> > indeed a reason why Recommends isn't enough, and the gnome meta
> > package has to Depends: NM. [The questions I posed earlier still
> > haven't been answered, unfortunately.]
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> The simpler hypothesis is that there is no reason.I should expand on that, because it makes it sound like I think the gnome maintainerss' behaviour is entirely inexplicable. That's not what I mean. I should have said "no good reason". It seems to me that the gnome maintainers have a philosophical view that Network Manager is very strongly part of GNOME, and that they feel that this philosophical position can only be properly reflected by a hard dependency. That is, that demoting the dependency to Recommends would be failing to properly give effect to the truth that N-M is part of GNOME. This seems to me to be the core of the opposition. Naturally I disagree that that's a good reason for having a Depends. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
