[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#651495: Bug#651495: Bug#651495: analysis

Yves-Alexis Perez corsac at debian.org
Sun Sep 2 21:46:47 UTC 2012


On dim., 2012-09-02 at 17:42 -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> > Yeah but there is no way to tell what the user will want. Alsa is a good
> > bet (which is why it's the first alternative in the dependency chain)
> > but any sink would normally do, so we can't really force people to have
> > it installed.
> 
> Seems to me that "Recommends: gstreamer0.10-alsa" does not force anything.
> If someone wants to save small amounts of disk by removing that package,
> while installing pulseaudio, the recommends will not prevent them from
> doing so.

Hmhm, ok, won't having the same package in Depends: and Recommends:
confuse apt?
-- 
Yves-Alexis
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