[Pkg-phototools-devel] Bug#682397: Bug#682397: darktable: recommend opencl package

[David Bremner]

Sladjan <sladjanri at gmail.com> writes:

> I have a Nvidia OpenCL capable card, and Darktable provides an option
> to use OpenCL also.  I just installed the nvidia binary drivers,
> expecting OpenCL to work, after installing Darktable. But I had to
> install the nvidia-opencl-icd package too, to get the feature working.
> It would be nice if Darktable installed this as a recommended package
> automatically.

Hi Sladjan;

Since that package is non-free, Debian policy forbids recommending it.
It could be a suggests, but I'm not sure there is much advantage to
that. If we did add a suggests then I suppose we would want something
for ati and intel as well.

d