On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Paul Wise wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 21:54 +0200, Bart Samwel wrote:
> 
> > I'm sorry you have limited space.
> 
> It isn't about limited space, but flexibility

Why do you need that flexibility? Are the packages causing you any
trouble?

You also have the possibility to remove acpi-support. It's not always
needed. :)

> IIRC, recommends are installed automatically these days, even with
> apt-get.

In the next apt upload that's supposed to happen soon IIRC. But there's
also the question of "Tasks", I'm not a sure a Recommends is enough for
the initiall install via the laptop task.

> Options for telling the user include big scary warnings from the init
> script or syslog messages or some kind of dbus notification.

That's just ugly and annoying the user for nothing when we could avoid this
for a few kb.

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog

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