[Foo2zjs-maintainer] Dependency for hannah

[Michael Koch]

On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 10:58:57PM +0200, Luca Bedogni wrote:
> 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.

I agree. Steffen has found good solution.


Cheers,
Michael