Debian bug report logs - #675
xbaseR6 recommends all sorts of things

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From: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson)
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Subject: xbaseR6 recommends all sorts of things
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Package: xbaseR6
Version: 3.1.1-1

The xbaseR6 control file contains the following information:

 Recommended: xfntbas, xbaseR5 | xr5shlib, x8514 | xagx | xmach8 |
               xmach32 | xmach64 | xmono | xp9000 | xs3 | xsvga | xvga16 |
               xw32, xfnt75, xcompR6, 
              emacs | xaxe | xcoral,
              ghostviewR6, gxditviewR6, xxgdbR6, fvwmR6, gcc
 Optional: xfig, xfnt100, xfntscl, xfntbig, gnuplot, seyon, xdevelR6

The X servers I can understand.  However, much of the rest is
questionable.

Surely the fonts should be Depended on by the X server(s) rather than
the clients ?

It is not necessary to practically force the user to select an
X-native editor if they don't want to (and in any case, if you want to
mention Emacs you should mention emacs-x).

It is *definitely* not necessary to mention explicitly in the Optional
field half a dozen applications that they might want to install.  If
they want to install these applications the user will do so
themselves; you should not get dselect to preempt this by filling the
Optional field full of stuff like that.

Finally, what is GCC doing in there ?!

Ian.