Am 15.12.2016 um 19:41 schrieb Michael Biebl:
> Control: reassign -1 netbase
> Control: retitle -1 Drop/Demote recommends on ifupdown
> 
> Am 15.12.2016 um 13:17 schrieb Olliver Schinagl:
>> Package: systemd
>> Version: 232-3
>> Severity: normal
>> File: systemd-networkd
>>
>> Dear Maintainer,
>>
>> currently, when installing a small server, with systemd(-sysv),isc-dhcp-
>> server,openntpd
>>
>> it pulls in some dependencies, of which one comes from netbase, which is a
>> dependancy of openntpd.
>>
>> While the choice ultimatly is with the user, having systemd-networkd and
>> systemd-resolved, which covers most basic network needs and in theory 
>> supplies
>> netbase. So should systemd not also thus provide netbase?
>>
>> If a user wants to install other network tools or packages depend on specific
>> networking packages, they can list them as such, naturally.
> 
> Having systemd Provides: netbase doesn't really make sense. systemd
> doesn't provide that functionality after all.
> 
> You could ask the netbase maintainer, Marco, though, if he was open to
> drop the Recommends: ifupdown or demote it to Suggests.
> That would seem like a reasonable suggestion to me.
> 
> So I'm reassigning this to netbase and let Marco decide.

Keep in mind though, that ifupdown will likely be installed anyway,
since it has Priority: important        


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