On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 07:53:20PM +0100, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:
On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 07:43:27PM +0100, NoisyCoil wrote:
Control: tags -1 + moreinfo
Setting aside option 2 as it seems too involved for this situation, it seems
to me that option 1 goes explicitly against policy: the existence of this
bug proves the expectation is not fulfilled in practice, and packages must
depend on other packages needed for them to work properly. Recommends works
as long as the dependency is optional, which in this case it is not if one
uses x11.
AFAIK this is exactly the point of Recommends. Not all situations
require the package, and the user must change the defaults to not
get the dependency installed.
There aren't _yet_ Recommends for the libraries. Even adding Recommends
doesn't address ensuring the right version is available (in terms of
library transitions), but I guess it's better than nothing.
Cheers,
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James
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