On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 03:53:06PM +0200, David Kalnischkies wrote:
> >> > Soft-Depends: debdelta {10%,text:"to enable automatic delta downloading"}
> >>
> >> While this solves the why, we have a new problem: Translations
> >> And these texts are quickly written in a way a user can't use:
> >> What
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 9:24 PM, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote:
> tl;dr: I would want to be able to differentiate between, for example,
>
> - "install this or your system will break (unless you did special things so
> it does not)";
> - "install this unless you know you'll never need this feature";
>
Hi,
2013-05-09 09:01, Johannes Schauer:
> [...]
> Soft-Depends: a [minthresh:90], b (>= 1.2) [minthresh:20], c (>= 4)
> [minthresh:99], c (>= 6) [minthresh:70]
> Soft-Depends: iceweasel [minthresh:50 tag:desktop], curl [minthresh:95
> !installed:wget]
Indeed, this syntax would be just as good.
Hi,
Thank you for comments.
2013-05-09 18:44, David Kalnischkies:
> On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 8:51 PM, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote:
> > Soft-Depends: a {90%}, b (>= 1.2) {20%}, c (>= 4) {99%}, c (>= 6) {70%}
>
> If we assume its already hard to decide "recommends" or "suggests" it will
> be impossib
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 8:51 PM, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote:
> Soft-Depends: a {90%}, b (>= 1.2) {20%}, c (>= 4) {99%}, c (>= 6) {70%}
If we assume its already hard to decide "recommends" or "suggests" it will
be impossible to choose a number between 0 and 100. Basically we are rating
likelihood of
Hi,
Without discussing whether adding "generalized soft dependencies" would be a
good idea or not, let me give you my two cents about the syntax.
Quoting Eugene V. Lyubimkin (2013-05-08 20:51:54)
> Soft-Depends: a {90%}, b (>= 1.2) {20%}, c (>= 4) {99%}, c (>= 6) {70%}
> Soft-Depends: iceweasel {
Somewhat crazy idea, but let's see.
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The problem
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Subjectiveness of Recommends. Debian policy declares Recommends as
"strong but not absolute" dependency. Maintainers have different
subjective opinions of what belongs to Recommends/Depends/Suggests. Some
put a lot of extra
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