Package Maintainers Flags policy

[Björn Persson]

Denis Leroy wrote:
> On 05/18/2009 07:32 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > And FYI, the current policy doesn't ban flags entirely, but they have to
> > be in a -flags package which is not installed by default
>
> That's about the same as banning them. What percentage of users do you
> think will install them, let alone be aware they exist ?

It wouldn't be so bad if a package could suggest another package without 
requiring it, so that Yum or PackageKit could tell the user "There is also a 
kdebase-runtime-flags package that you can install if you like".

Björn Persson
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