multimedia-blends: policy question(s)

[IOhannes m zmölnig]

On 06/11/2015 09:44 PM, Ross Gammon wrote:
> 
>> furthermore, i noticed that the various tasks mainly use the *Depends*
>> relationship.
>> now i'm not an expert with blends, but personally i think that 'Depends'
>> should be avoided as much as possible (in general).
> 
> I think the web sentinel (task pages) do not distinguish between Depends
> and Recommends. But if you put Suggests it lists the package in the
> "packages with lower relevance" section toward the bottom.
> 
> When building the metapackages, all Depends are demoted to Recommends.

ah, that's good to know.
before writing, i briefly had a look at various task-packages (e.g.
task-ssh-server), and they do have hard dependencies.
i know see that these are different beasts than blends tasks.


>> (though for whatever reasons audicity is missing)
> 
> Audacity for some strange reason is in the mixing task.

and quite a lot of mixing packages are in the recording package (e.g.
"non-mixer").

anyhow: can't a package be in multiple tasks?

gfmdst
IOhannes

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