On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 04:39:49PM -0400, Celejar wrote:
> On Sun, 23 May 2010 23:20:45 +0300
> Andrei Popescu <andreimpope...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > An interesting proposal a while ago was to be able to add some more 
> > information to Suggests:, something like:
> > 
> > Package: acpi-support
> > Suggests: radeontool (backlight control for ATI Radeon based laptops)
> 
> *That* would really be a great idea.  As it is, I'm often left
> scratching my head trying to figure out what's likely to go wrong, or
> what functionality will be missing, if I don't install some
> recommendation.

Aaaah! what about the bloat added to the packages.gz file? You can find
the functionality by "apt-cache show radeontool", but I agree it should
be a suggests.

-- 
Chris.


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