severity 543579 wishlist tags 543579 wontfix thanks Steffen Moeller wrote: > Package: hal > Version: 0.5.13-3 > Severity: minor > > Some machines don't have a PCI bus, and half a meg of installed size > makes a difference for them. But they run X and hal with it. > > It would be lovely if pciutils could become recommended. Most people > would install it, since the installation of recommended packages is the > default. Those who don't want it could then omit it. > > An alternative independent from changing the hal package could be the > provisioning of a package that provides pciutils but that has only dummy > utilities. Though that would be ugly, wouldn't it?
hal relies on pci.ids to be existent, otherwise it fails to start. Because of that, the depedency can't be made optional (at least not without changing the code). -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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