Soliciting opinions on #137993

[Nicolas Valcarcel]

If someone is installing mplayer-plugin (s)he knows what (s)he is doing
and will have no problems with it, IMHO, so i think we can not depend on
any browser and not crash anything, so i'm ok to moving the browser
thing to "Recomend:". BUT i have talked to ari (the Debian Maintainer)
before and i'm not sure he will be ok with this change, since he has his
own opinions, but if we want to have a bigger diff between debian and
ubuntu package, i'm ok with it.

On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 17:11 +0100, Fergal Daly wrote:
> Saying that I must install a browser to install mplayer-plugin is like
> saying you I must install an MP3 player to install an mp3 library.
> 
> I spotted an argument that it won't be uninstalled when the last
> browser is uninstalled. How is that handled for libraries?
> 
> F
> 
> 2008/5/16 Forest Bond <forest at alittletooquiet.net>:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Please review the ticket:
> >
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mplayerplug-in/+bug/137993
> >
> > The question is whether or not the mplayerplug-in package should Depend on each
> > and every browser package that supports it.  The problem with this approach, of
> > course, is that if one such browser is missed (and new browsers *do* get
> > introduced in releases), then the user has to install a browser he doesn't
> > intend to use.
> >
> > In my opinion, the ideal situation is for all Gecko-based browsers to Provide
> > gecko-browser so that plugin packages can depend on that.  However, this is not
> > currently in place.  Given that, I'd prefer it if plugin packages downgrade this
> > dependency to Recommends.
> >
> > Opinions?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Forest
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