rev 8288 - trunk/packages/qt4-x11/debian

[Brian Nelson]

Armin Berres <trigger at space-based.de> writes:

> On Tue, 18 Dec 07 11:55, Brian Nelson wrote:
>> Armin Berres <trigger-guest at alioth.debian.org> writes:
>> 
>> > Author: trigger-guest
>> > Date: 2007-12-17 23:09:20 +0000 (Mon, 17 Dec 2007)
>> > New Revision: 8288
>> >
>> > Modified:
>> >    trunk/packages/qt4-x11/debian/changelog
>> >    trunk/packages/qt4-x11/debian/control
>> > Log:
>> > * Don't recommend qt4-doc, suggest it instead.
>> 
>> Why do that?  Users of Qt Assistant will generally want qt4-doc
>> installed.
>
> Because qt4-doc is quite a large beast and is installed every time you install
> libqt4-dev via qt4-dev-tools.

It's installed by default, but you can uninstall it if it's too big for
you.  That's the whole point of recommends.

> What do you think about lowering libqt4-dev's recommendation of
> qt4-dev-tools to a suggestion? This would solve the problem, too. IMO
> qt4-dev-tools aren't generally needed if you install libqt4-dev.

I think someone who installs libqt4-dev generally expects to get the
whole Qt4 development environment installed by default, which includes
qt4-dev-tools and qt4-doc.

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