[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#543579: recommend pciutils, don't depend on it

[Michael Biebl]

severity 543579 wishlist
tags 543579 wontfix
thanks

Steffen Moeller wrote:
> Package: hal
> Version: 0.5.13-3
> Severity: minor
> 
> Some machines don't have a PCI bus, and half a meg of installed size
> makes a difference for them. But they run X and hal with it.
> 
> It would be lovely if pciutils could become recommended. Most people
> would install it, since the installation of recommended packages is the
> default. Those who don't want it could then omit it.
> 
> An alternative independent from changing the hal package could be the
> provisioning of a package that provides pciutils but that has only dummy
> utilities. Though that would be ugly, wouldn't it?

hal relies on pci.ids to be existent, otherwise it fails to start. Because of
that, the depedency can't be made optional (at least not without changing the
code).

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