On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 5:29 AM, Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > A recommend would mean swfdec-mozilla would not be installed by default >> > since tasksel does not honor recommends. >> Why not fix tasksel ? ;-) > This may be done post-lenny, but it has strong implications on the size > of the default install. Alright, I understand the problem. However, using a "depends" when it's not really something that is depended on (all browsers can perfectly work without a flash player) breaks the definition of the Depends field. By having it depend instead of just recommend, it is currently being forced that the user installs swfdec when installing gnome. And then, if the user would rather use other flash player, currently they need to uninstall swfdec so that iceweasel uses the other player [1], thus having to uninstall gnome and getting a whole lot of packages into "auto-remove" state. Maybe we need a way to tell tasksel which "Recommends" it should install and which not. But forcing the user to install packages that don't work well and need to be removed in order to be replaced by something that works, is not a good idea. In general, forcing a "Depends" when we actually mean "Recommends" is not a good idea. [1]: this was fixed for gnash in swfdec-mozilla/0.6.0-3, but it's not fixed (and I think it can't be fixed) for the closed flash plugin, and we know that lots of flash pages don't work with neither swf nor gnash. -- Besos, Marga -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
