On Viernes, 13 de julio de 2012 08:05:10 Gergely Nagy wrote:
[...]
> On one hand, you have, in the depends case:
> 
> # apt-get remove gstreamer-plugins-good
> 
> Which will try to remove the whole world, including the meta, and that
> will ring alarm bells.
> 
> Or in the recommends case:
> 
> # apt-get remove gstreamer-plugin-good
> 
> Which will remove a bunch of stuff, but leave the meta installed.
> 
> In the latter case, you have gnome installed, without a video or audio
> player. Gnome sucks.

No. You have decided to remove gstreamer-plugins-good, so you should have a 
reason for that, and know why you issued such a command with such an strange-
named package. So you will not think "Gnome sucks because it does not play 
video". You will think "It is normal that Gnome does not play video using 
gstreamer, I decided to remove one of its components. Thanks god I installed 
Xine."
[...]
> > Did you consider creating your own meta-package? It shouldn't take you
> > more than 5 minutes to write an apt hook to get the control file and
> > s/Recommends/Depends/
> 
> I did not, as the existing meta-package works exactly how it should, and
> fulfills my expectations. If it bothers you so much, you can do the
> s/Depends/Recommends/ too. ;)

We are discussing because it does NOT work exactly how it should: It is a 
meta-package for a desktop that messes up unrelated things (the network) that 
may be deemed critical for a system.

Regards
Noel Torres
er Envite

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