Bug#1005223: bad package dependencies, power button not working

[Luca Boccassi]

On Wed, 2022-02-09 at 12:52 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Am 09.02.22 um 11:46 schrieb Luca Boccassi:
> > IMHO the current setup is fine. There are legitimate use cases of
> > minimal images and runtime environments where you just want to pull in
> > some tools, without the whole dbus system session.
> > 
> > The installer does the right thing, and one can use the task or just
> > pull in recommends for other cases.
> 
> An alternative could be to bump the prio of dbus to important.
> This way, a simple "debootstrap" would install dbus by default.
> 
> Simon, I have a vague recollection that we discussed this back then and 
> that you weren't quite comfortable doing that (but you were ok with 
> standard). I don't remember all the pros and cons anymore though.
> 
> Michael

We have the installer which does the right thing (TM), and then we have
tasks (and recommends to note what's needed at an even lower level). If
someone is re-implementing their own installer from basic pieces
without looking at any of these, IMHO it's their problem to solve - and
it's pretty simple to do so, as we provide all the pieces and hints
already.
I don't think we should make legitimate use cases impossible to set up
just to facilitate custom, unsupported and incomplete setups. Putting
together an image without a system bus is legitimate and useful.

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi
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