[Joachim Breitner] > > And a foo-dev Recommends: foo-prof is not suitable because? > > because we cannot tell what the user will want. For example, a user of > xmonad will not want -prof packages installed, and an addition 400MB of > useless stuff on his computer is not in his, and hence our, interest.
So, it appears xmonad is a window manager. It seems a fair question why someone who runs a window manager needs -dev packages at all, let alone -prof packages. According to the package description, you only need the -dev package if you actually plan to configure the window manager instead of using its defaults. Which presumably most people do, so I guess the Recommends makes sense. Excpet for the part where this requires one or more -dev packages at all. It looks as though configuring xmonad involves _recompiling_ it. What is this, an old school Unix kernel? I'm confused. Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121222185144.gp4...@p12n.org
