On Sat, 2015-06-27 at 14:15 +0200, David Bremner wrote: > I'm not completely convinced. Of course adding a suggests doesn't > cost > much, but since the admin has to hand edit the config file anyway, I > think that I don't really have a strong opinion here.
> - installing redis is the easy part That's clear :) > - the convenience gained for the small number of people interested, > is > probably offset by the fact that just installing the package > doesn't > do anything. Well normally I think packages should try to express any possible "dependencies",... and when they're so weak/rarely used as in this case with gitolite3/redis, Suggests is the strongest appropriate dependency... we already have quite often packages that suggest other packages which they'd only use after further manual configuration is done, so I don't think *this* is an argument against adding it. As for the possible confusion that people might experience,... I personally generally recommend that packages add information to their package descriptions about Recommended/Suggested packages for which the benefit/use case is not absolutely obvious.... e.g. as the devscripts package does it (quite heavily). So my recommendation would be: Add it as Suggests + add information to the description what this would be used for. Best wishes, Chris.
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