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<B>Kamil Rytarowski</B>
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<I>Sat Dec 10 14:06:18 CET 2011</I>
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<PRE>W dniu 10.12.2011 13:45, Maarten Vanraes pisze:
><i> Op zaterdag 10 december 2011 13:12:52 schreef Kamil Rytarowski:
</I>>><i> Hello!
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> Situation:
</I>>><i> A package X may have support for a package Y, by a module as a build in
</I>>><i> X or stand-alone package. All modules are possible to turn-on and to
</I>>><i> turn-off in a menu of X.
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> And there is a discussion because there is no Y at all in Mageia.
</I>>><i> Person A says:
</I>>><i> - include the module, even if there is no Y in Mageia (and maybe never
</I>>><i> will be included), because an end-user can install Y from alternative
</I>>><i> source or compile it from sources; and don't add Suggests/Requires for Y
</I>>><i> in the package, because it's obvious that this is to support Y; also
</I>>><i> installing Y from alternative sources/self-compilation is much simpler
</I>>><i> than reinstalling X with support for Y
</I>>><i> Person B says:
</I>>><i> - don't include the module, because Y is a dependency for the module of
</I>>><i> X - and we don't ship broken packages that aren't self-contained; so it
</I>>><i> must be excluded from X or the nobody has package Y and maintain it
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> Neither A nor B want to work with Y package.
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> Who is right?
</I>><i> imho, if Y is wanted by some people, and X works more of less fine without Y
</I>><i> even if it's support is compiled, and sometimes a get-Y package is fine.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> imho it's maintainer's preference, if maintainer is fine to also "support the
</I>><i> Y-module for X" even if depends on Y and Y is not allowed in mageia, or even
</I>><i> if Y is in nonfree... it's fine by me.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> let's get into specifics:
</I>><i>
</I>Well here there is no nonfree, demo, shareware, license issue. Just Y is
yet another media-player. Importing Y is not a case for neiher A nor B.
There is a question to include or not include a module (as an external
package %{name}-module-mediaplayer_Y) for X. X is working perfectly
without Y - Y is just adding some extra features. But the module for X
is NOT working without Y. Well it's probably not breaking X, there will
be an error message "error loading module-mediaplayer_Y".
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