On Tue, 25 May 2010 00:26:57 +1200 Chris Bannister <mockingb...@earthlight.co.nz> wrote:
> 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. When doing an upgrade, having to stop and run 'apt-cache show xxxx' for every recommends is annoying, and the information can sometimes be pretty opaque, for things like library packages and lower-level glue layers. I don't know what to say about the size increase in packages.gz. Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100524092431.5488217f.cele...@gmail.com
