[Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#458945: Bug#458945: bluez-utils shouldn't Recommend bluez-gnome

[Filippo Giunchedi]

On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 03:01:04PM -0500, Ryan Schultz wrote:
> A really minor issue:
> With apt-get now automatically installing the Recommends for certain packages, 
> bluez-gnome is pulled in if bluez-utils is installed. This pulls in a whole 
> collection of GNOME components.
> 
> Policy says that Recommends is for packages that "would be found together with 
> this one in all but unusual installations" -- I hope that my KDE isn't that 
> unusual :- )
> 
> Please note that I'm not some kind of crazy desktop purist; I already have the 
> GNOME components installed to use GIMP and Inkscape. I think bluez-gnome 
> should be a Suggests, though.

thanks for your comments, I basically agree.
The thing is that bluez-gnome contains a passkey agent (and so does
kdebluetooth) and you are supposed to have one.

I think I'll downgrade bluez-gnome into suggests

filippo
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