Comment 7 for bug 129605

When you want to enable the functionality that is dependent to this library,
you could place a popup window asking if the user wants to install the
library and then prompt for sudo password (if in debian or ubuntu, and then
install it)... or something like that...
otherway i think that if it's a functionalitty of listen it needs to be a
dependency... or you could think like this:

I have listen and it play's musics... but the library's to play music isn't
a real dependency to make the program run (show the dialogs)... so if
someone downloads it to play music, they had to figure out that it needs to
install the dependency packages...

that's my point of view...
if you have a functionality that depends on some packages, then, the
packages are a dependency to make the program run in it's fullness of
functionality.

this is also a help to novice people that can't figure out what the error
message means.

2007/9/29, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <email address hidden>:
>
> I've looked into this and it's aptitude which is installing recommends
> by default.
>
> apt already has support for this in Debian, but won't make Gutsy, but
> rather Hardy. Synaptic still let's you install recommended packages if
> you set it in preferences, but that's not the way to go...
>
> However, as I said, I don't feel comfortable with adding it as a
> dependency, since it isn't really a dependency. It adds some
> functionality, but you don't it to make listen work (as you need python
> or pygtk...).
>
> Do you know of any other way to 'fix' this without having to add it to
> depends?
>
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> Incorrect packages dependency
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/129605
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