Re: Policy for adding DEPENDS

[Edgar Fuß <ef%math.uni-bonn.de@localhost>]

> The only advantage of RECOMMENDS and SUGGESTS is that it is 
> machine-readable, otherwise it is either something that should be the 
> default or something that should be documented.
As my example (should cups-filters depend on freefont-ttf) shows, there 
are boundary cases.
You can regard RECOMMENDS as a documentation of "you probably want these 
packages, too" and SUGGESTS as a documentation of "you may consider 
installing these packages". It would have saved me about three working 
hours if we had had that.
In case you don't like the names, think of "hard depends" (you can't 
possibly get away without intstalling these) and "soft depends" (it will 
probably not behave as you expect if you omit these).