Bug#688772: gnome Depends network-manager-gnome

[Ian Jackson]

Ian Jackson writes ("Re: Bug#688772: gnome Depends network-manager-gnome"):
> Don Armstrong writes ("Bug#688772: gnome Depends network-manager-gnome"):
> > That's what I'm confused about too, but I'm assuming that there is
> > indeed a reason why Recommends isn't enough, and the gnome meta
> > package has to Depends: NM. [The questions I posed earlier still
> > haven't been answered, unfortunately.]
...
> The simpler hypothesis is that there is no reason.

I should expand on that, because it makes it sound like I think the
gnome maintainerss' behaviour is entirely inexplicable.  That's not
what I mean.  I should have said "no good reason".

It seems to me that the gnome maintainers have a philosophical view
that Network Manager is very strongly part of GNOME, and that they
feel that this philosophical position can only be properly reflected
by a hard dependency.  That is, that demoting the dependency to
Recommends would be failing to properly give effect to the truth that
N-M is part of GNOME.

This seems to me to be the core of the opposition.  Naturally
I disagree that that's a good reason for having a Depends.

Ian.