Ubuntu with KDE vs Kubuntu

[Francisco Borges]

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 3:03 AM, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> Francisco Borges wrote:

> But I still don't accept that it's wrong to set _my_
> default handler for something I've installed to the latest package I
> install.  It's less trouble for everybody.  If you're just "trying it out",
> the issue is not changing the default, but _failing_ to change it back when
> you uninstall the package.

But that point doesn't justify the current behavior, since that is not
what happens.

What happens is that Gnome apps have a lower priority and they will
get set as default regardless of the order they get installed:

cd  /usr/lib/mime/packages
grep priority  *


>  > If you were using aptitute it should handle that for you (unless the
>  > packages were installed as recommened...)
>
>  Er, have you actually _tried_ using aptitude _without_
>  installing "recommends"?

Actually I did ;-) but I don't do that anymore.

I was jut mentioning that to warn that the described behavior would
not remove those packages, only the dependencies.

>  That's the default way aptitude works, and if you
>  try to override it for a specific package, it has a bad habit of trying to
>  remove _every_ package that was installed just because it was recommended.
>  Not something _I_ recommend.

AFAIK the recommends field was *used* differently some years ago (at
least on Debian systems).

The impression I have is that it was used less often, and in a more
'week" sense. But as users started using  package managers that
installed everything on it. Developers started relying much more on
it.

(again AFAIK) The usage of "recommends" changed.

kind regards,
-- 
Francisco