On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 10:59:20PM +0200, Tim Dengel wrote: > Am 29.09.2016 um 21:30 schrieb Bill Allombert: > > I would pick 2 in general because some users do not install Recommends > > by defaut and I do not know how well gnome-twitch react when there is no > > plugin, > > When the user first tries to watch a stream, he will be prompted to > choose one of the installed player backends. If there is none installed, > he will just see an empty plugin list. If the user does not install > recommended packages on purpose, he will hopefully know that he needs to > install an additional package in such a case. > But it would probably be nice to have a message telling him that he > needs to install at least one backend instead of just an empty list, I > will suggest that to upstream.
Ah good to see gnome-twitch handles this so well. > I thought about using a virtual package, but decided against it, because > as far as I know, I can not declare a dependency on a specific version > of a virtual package, and the Plugin-API of gnome-twitch is not > guaranteed to be stable (yet?). Ah yes this is an issue. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here.