Frans Pop schrieb: > Package: hal > Version: 0.5.10-1 > Severity: normal > > In the changelog I noticed: > - Add a Recommends: libsmbios-bin [i386 amd64]. The libsmbios-bin > package ships the dellWirelessCtl utility which is required > for the RF kill switch support on DELL laptops. > > IMHO this is too weak a justification for a recommends, which means that > libsmbios-bin will be installed by default on each and every desktop system > when in fact it is only actually needed by a very, very small subclass > of systems. > The reason for the suggests should be documented somewhere.
Hi Frans, thanks for your input on this. We were discussing this issue among the hal maintainers before the upload. Fact is, that the Suggests mechanism isn't really nicely integrated into the apt frontend, so basically noone (at least not novices) make use of that. They mostly only notice, when things don't work as expected. libsmbios-bin is a rather small package which has reasonable dependencies (libstdc++, libxml2), so our reasoning was, that in a matter of "just works", it would make sense to make it a recommends. Advanced users can easily chose to not install libsmbios-bin. Ideally, we should have some kind of support for "hardware based dependencies/recommendations". Unfortunately right now we don't have something like that. Cheers, Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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