20 Sep
2011
20 Sep
'11
10:53 p.m.
On Tue September 20 2011, David Hare <David Hare
<davidahare(a)gmail.com>> wrote:
On 20/09/11 18:36, Greg Madden wrote:
This is REALLY a stretch, but perhaps someone thought that installing
a multimedia package would lead to wanting to fiddle with the audio
and video drivers on the machine, and that was a good reason to
recommend KDE-specific tools for that??
Hey, Greg,
I've never used dselect, and some of the Lenny doc seemed to
discourage its use. I'm curious: What you you like about it?
Thanks-
Douglas
I am a Squeeze-KDE trinity user.
KDE-trinity does seem to have more depends than I would like to
see, but as long as they are recommends or suggestions I have
control of what gets installed. Afaik 'apt.conf' file will set
up a global recommends/suggestion install policy for your
system. Some package managers are better than others in showing
what is a recommend or suggestion, i personally like 'dselect'
A DE will function fine without recommends& suggestions.
Increased functionality is a personal thing, if you want it you
will know it and can install as needed.
As far as a bug I would say not necessarily, it is a decision
someone made, minds can change, suggest a different possibility.
I use apt-get, which by default installs "recommends". I know how
to use apt.conf
My point is that sudo, if wanted on a Debian system, is normally
configured by deliberate user action only and has no apparent
reason to be a "recommends" of a multimedia application.
Also what has kpackage got to do with multimedia?
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