comps discussion at fudcon and the future

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 02:15 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> seth vidal wrote:
> > they don't help the problem at all, they just introduce a whole other
> > set of difficulties as to what the default behavior should be when we
> > hit them.
> 
> Here's how I see things (which I believe is close if not identical to how it
> works on Debian):
> 
> Recommended = default on.
> Suggested = default off.
> The user can customize it to have both on or both off.
> 
> And in both cases, removing a package with only a soft dep should not remove
> the dependent package (except if an option to treat them as hard deps is
> set).

Right, I just don't see the above making our situation any better at
all.

-sv