Felix Miata wrote:
Atri Bhattacharya composed on 2024-05-11 13:58 (UTC-0000):
requires are those packages without which a package would manifestly break.
This is only theoretical WRT openSUSE package maintainers. Several believe broken "theme" is manifest breakage.
Felix, My response was in the context of the question whether it is a good idea for regular users to disable the installation of recommended packages. Your point, whilst being worth a discussion, is not directly related to the thread in my opinion. With that said, let me suggest that human packagers can have disagreements with human users and other human packagers¹ about the lines where Recommends become Requires (but never vice versa!). Indeed, there are times I have disagreed with other packagers/users about similar issues without really reaching an agreement. A minority of such line-splitting issues do not make the entire question of Requires vs Recommends moot, I would posit. Thanks for your response. ¹At least until AI takes over packaging completely and we can build DistroX with minimal human intervention ☺️ Cheers, -- Atri