[Foo2zjs-maintainer] Dependency for hannah

[Luca Bedogni]

On Monday 01 October 2007, Steffen Joeris wrote:
> Hi
>
> On Mon, 1 Oct 2007 03:31:17 am Luca Bedogni wrote:
> > Hi
> > 	at this time, hannah uses either gksu or kdesu depending on the
> > installation, so foo2zjs now depends either on kdebase-bin and gksu.
> > From my poin of view, that's not ok, firstly because a sysadmin, with no
> > kde or gnome installed could use the getweb script directly, and secondly
> > because someone on a kde system shouldn't install gksu for a driver, and
> > a gnome user the same.
> > So, my proposal is to make a different package for hannah, and maybe
> > split it into hannah-kde and hannah-gnome. This way, someone could use
> > foo2zjs as usual, or install his specific version.
>
> I totally understand your point, but I think your approach for a solution
> is not the best.
> Hannah has a dependency against qt(4) and kde is based on qt. Therefore, I
> would suggest to put hannah into a seperate package and let it depend on
> kdebase-bin | gksu . This way the kde dependency comes first, but if gksu
> is already installed, kdebase-bin will not be installed.
> I do not think that we should split hannah into two packages, just
> depending on the su frontend we use. I guess a hannah package, which is
> either a recommends or a suggests for foo2zjs would be sufficient and the
> if-condition in the .desktop file seems to work fine.

The solution proposed by you seems good, better than mine. I also think that 
this should be a "Suggest" on foo2zjs.

> Cheers
> Steffen

Cheers
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Bedogni Luca
Undergraduate Student