Re: [Gnumed-devel] GNUmed 1.2.rc1 Release Candidate

[Andreas Tille]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 04:38:57PM +0200, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> > I would always be very carefull with Depends in any case.  The thing is:
> > Recommends are installed by default and users will not end up without
> > gnumed-doc when not explicitely asking for ignore-recommends.  A Depends
> > should *only* be used if the code breaks if a package is missing.  So if
> > the code is not explicitely using a file from the doc (and does not have
> > an exception to work around a missing doc file if only used in rare
> > cases) we should go with the Recommends in any case.
> 
> Well, the thing is, we used to have a Manual plugin (I don't think we
> do anymore) which depended on the HTML content being available from
> an installed gnumed-doc which made you make it Depends:

Well, this was an interesting statement about the past and explains why
the status is that way.  What I actually wanted to know if it is needed
in the present.

Kind regards

       Andreas.

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