Comment 6 for bug 1042366

The policies here are a little vague.

> because you won't answer all the questions why printing and pc/sc isn't working out of the box, if the recommends are not installed.

But that is true for any recommended dependency in any package.

> "The Depends field should be used if the depended-on package is required for the depending package to provide a significant amount of functionality.

This is also vague, especially for a large package like the JRE.

I think it should be a little more objective; if there is a graceful degradation then the dependencies should go into recommended. If it's going to hard-crash, then it should be essential.