Stefano Zacchiroli writes ("Bug#688772: gnome Depends network-manager-gnome"):
> To be fair, it seems to me that Joss has provided an additional answer
> to the "why recommends?" question in
>
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2012/09/msg00089.html
>
> For lack of a better synopsis, the argument there is "because recommends
> do not behave properly across upgrades".
That's a reason not to use Recommends in metapackages everywhere
(indeed, it's _the_ reason why metapackages shouldn't just all use
Recommends).
But in this specific case, it isn't a good reason, because the bug
(failing to honour a newly-appearing Recommends) will not occur in the
case of people upgrading from squeeze's "gnome", because the squeeze's
"gnome" package already had that recommends.
Ian.
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