Oops, when I said "look" I meant "(L)ookup." look is not part of ispell (but also requires a wordlist).
On Dec 16, 2007 2:23 PM, David Coe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'll think about this, but ispell requires a wordlist in order > for its "look" command to work. It's not a strict requirement > for the rest of ispell's functionality, which is why the wordlist > packages are recommends and not depends. > > The policy manual still says that we should recommend > "packages that would be found together with this one in > all but unusual installations." I think a system that tries > to minimze disk space requirements qualifies as an > unusual installation, especially these days, but I guess > you could convince me that I'm wrong. > > I don't really understand why apt decided to automatically > install recommended packages by default, because I haven't > had time to study the issue, so I'm not going to beat that > dead horse here. > > Would it hurt or help debian-edu (and other distributions that > try to minimize disk space requirements) if it were to configre > apt to not install recommends by default? Lots of people > do that these days, and every package should still be able > to work reasonably well without its recommended packages > (I believe). > > Let me know what you think. Thanks. > > > On Dec 16, 2007 9:02 AM, Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Package: iamerican > > Version: 3.1.20.0-4.3 > > Severity: wishlist > > Tags: patch > > User: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Usertag: debian-edu > > > > Hi. While working on the Lenny version of Debian Edu, I noticed that > > iamerican recommend wamerican (and ibritish is similar). The new apt > > in Lenny will install recommends by default, and because of this, I > > will ask if you can consider reducing this relationship to suggests. > > > > In Debian Edu, we want to install the spell checkers for the programs > > using them, but want to save some space and not install the word lists > > (no program we include are using them). This become a bit hard when > > the recommended packages are installed. > > > > To defend the 'patch' tag, here is the recipe to change it. Replace > > > > Recommends: wamerican > > and > > Recommends: wbritish > > > > with > > Suggests: wamerican > > and > > Suggests: wbritish > > > > Happy hacking, > > -- > > Petter Reinholdtsen > > > > > > > > > > -- > David Coe > +1 410 505 4468 home/office/cell, depending on where I am > -- David Coe +1 410 505 4468 home/office/cell, depending on where I am -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
