On Wed, 29 Sep 2010, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
>
> [Karl Goetz]
> > It was so that both options 'behave the same'. Specifically, both
> > settings about pulling in dependencies have the same default which
> > is then overriden by the config file (in the same way). Looking at
> > the diff again, it looks like i changed recommends instead of
> > suggests - oops.
> > It was meant to be
> > +my $nosuggests = $ENV{'NOSUGGESTS'} || 0;
> > -my $nosuggests = $ENV{'NOSUGGESTS'} || 1;
> >
> > hope that explains :)
>
> I believe the build should handle recommends and suggests differently,
> as apt will install recommends by defaults but not suggests. Because
> of this, I believe it is important for debian-cd to include recommends
> on the CD and DVD by default, to make sure installs from the net and
> from CD/DVD behave more the same (ie will install the same packages).
+1 from me, I don't undertand/agree with the reasoning of the change and
would prefer that we kept the same good default.
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