Quoting Bryan Donlan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Although you cannot use all functionality, you can certainly use a great > deal of functionality - all of the non-X11 modes work fine. Thus rather > than them being "packages that would be found together with this one in > all but unusual installations," they are ones where "the listed packages > are related to this one and can perhaps enhance its usefulness, but that > installing this one without them is perfectly reasonable." (policy 7.2) > > Of course, if the user attempts to select an X11 backend when it is not > supported, then it should present a warning to the user or something, I > suppose.
Which is more or less what's being considered by Pierre to my understanding. The sequence is indeed: - change the maintainer scripts to skip the GNOME interface if the needed libraries are not present - turn the Recommends in a Suggests - change the package priority to Standard (a suggestion made in -devel which got some quite good feedback)
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