On Wed, Jan 2, 2019 at 5:52 AM Jonas Smedegaard <d...@jones.dk> wrote: > > Quoting Sandro Tosi (2019-01-02 06:01:15) > > > I filed this bugreport because I believe the use of recommends is wrong > > > here: As a library it cannot know if the various optional features are > > > exotic or valuable - that is for its consumers to decide. > > > > and this is where i disagree: part of being the maintainer is choosing > > the right balance of Depends (core functionalities), Recommends > > (important but library usable without) and Suggests (nice to have), > > which is what i'm trying to do here. > > > > after all, you're not a direct user of networkx so you may understand > > why i'm reluctant to demote any of the current Recommends just because > > you feel the dependencies chain of the tool you're actually using is > > too wide. > > My point is that _any_ use of a library is indirect use.
so you're claiming there is 0% chance someone wants to install python3-networkx to write *their own code* using that module? i'm afraid to say that's pretty common actually, and the reason we expose these modules in a location everyone can "import-away" -- Sandro "morph" Tosi My website: http://sandrotosi.me/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi G+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+SandroTosi
