Bug#778620: systemd: Add "less" to suggests or recommends

[Floris]

Op Wed, 18 Feb 2015 07:31:57 +0100 schreef Martin Pitt <mpitt at debian.org>:

> Hello Floris,
>
> floris [2015-02-17 15:47 +0100]:
>> from man journalctl:
>> The output is paged through less by default, and long lines are  
>> "truncated" to
>> screen width. The hidden part can be viewed by using the left-arrow and  
>> right-
>> arrow keys.
>
> In particular it's $PAGER, and it defaults to less. But I'm not sure
> whether we should add a suggests to it -- it rather seems like if you
> really have a minimal system without any pager, then you probably have
> a good reason for it.

I have installed the Debian Base system and add gnome-session, gdm,
xserver-xorg-video-nvidia and probably some other packages to get a
working gnome environment. Maybe coincidental, but none of these
packages recommends less. Only man-db and gzip suggests it. Git have
a recommend, but I don't think an end-desktop-user will use it.

> Also, systemd is installed by default, so
> chances are high that a user would never actually see the suggestion.
>

When a program behave strange, I always look at the suggested packages.
(maybe I am the only one) I admit, the man pages had the same problem
as the journal, so eventually that package had pointed me to less.


> So I'm inclined to wontfix and/or close this. But this isn't a strong
> opinion, adding a Suggests: less is fairly harmless after all.
>
> Martin