On Monday 18 January 2016 10:38:05 Bálint Réczey wrote: > > So, strictly speaking, libqt5xcbqpa5 (which again should have been named > > as a plugin) is not a strict dependency, and thus the recommendation. And > > people not using recommendations should handle it by hand. > > Since a missing libqt5xcbqpa5 would make applications crash on X which is > far more popular than framebuffer or Wayland it does not seem to be a good > idea to handle it as a pure recommendation. Popularity is not a criteria for Depends of Recommends. I don't know if it would create more problems then it would solve, but ... Is it an idea to create meta-packages like qt5-xorg, qt5-wayland, etc? Then if I want to have qt5 on an X system, I would install qt5-xorg and get all things I need for that. It would also solve another 'problem' I have: I have no idea which qt5 package should be installed on my system and just hope that they all get installed if I need it. I also want to have/try qt5 on my Raspberry Pi, without using X and I actually have no idea which packages I should install for that. libqt5gui5 sounds like a reasonable guess and I hope that will bring the rest in that I need. If not, I'll probably install several random, based on a somewhat educated guess, other packages. I actually don't like to manually install libX packages as those sound like libraries and I think those should be automatically installed. HTH, Diederik
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