On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 10:57:04PM +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > > Those bug reports seem to basically imply that cruft should call > > deborphan and report what it's found. But I don't think that is a good > > idea, since cruft and deborphan have two different purposes. > > Might it be an idea to supply 'deborphan' as a Suggests? I think it's > quite likely that people installing cruft would be interested in deborphan > so a suggestion would make sense to me.
IMO this is not a good idea. The policy document states that "Suggests": [...] is used to declare that one package may be more useful with one or more others. Using this field tells the packaging system and the user that the listed packages are related to this one and can perhaps enhance its usefulness, but that installing this one without them is perfectly reasonable. I don't think that either package makes the other any more useful, since they do not cooperate. What I do think might be a good idea: make sure a debtag like "system-cleanup" exists, which could then be used by such packages. Marcin -- Marcin Owsiany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://marcin.owsiany.pl/ GnuPG: 1024D/60F41216 FE67 DA2D 0ACA FC5E 3F75 D6F6 3A0D 8AA0 60F4 1216 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
