tech-pkg: Re: RFC: new variable SUGGESTS, Part II

Subject: Re: RFC: new variable SUGGESTS, Part II
To: Jan Schaumann <jschauma@netbsd.org>
From: Dr. Rene Hexel <rh@cit.gu.edu.au>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 09/03/2002 10:41:41

On Monday, September 2, 2002, at 11:36 AM, Jan Schaumann wrote:
> other, similar problems arise still exist. However, this implementation
> is not intended to solve those problems, but merely to provide a
> possibility for a package to point out what other software might be
> useful.
 The problems I see with the current approach are:
 - usefulness; I can't really think of any examples where
 SUGGESTS would provide any added functionality over
 meta-packages.
 - inflexibility; currently, TAKE_SUGGESTS is an
 all-or-nothing decision you have to make. You can't
 just specify a number of packages that you want to
 include (or exclude) from TAKE_SUGGESTS. Again, I
 believe that meta-packages already provide the
 necessary flexibility here.
 Cheers
 ,
 Rene