Bug#595108: Please depend on system-config-printer-udev rather than recommending it

Josh Triplett josh at joshtriplett.org
Wed Sep 1 06:15:30 UTC 2010


Package: system-config-printer
Version: 1.2.3-1
Severity: normal

I can somewhat understand not depending on cups-pk-helper, though it
seems harmless to do so for simplicity.  However, I don't see any reason
to not depend on system-config-printer-udev.  system-config-printer-udev
introduces minimal additional dependencies, and these days libudev0 does
not depend on udev, so it doesn't even require the use of udev.
Furthermore, the package itself has negligible size compared to
system-config-printer.  Recommending it rather than depending on it
seems error-prone and doesn't seem to gain anything, and it makes life
harder for people who install recommends selectively.

- Josh Triplett






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