You're kinda right, To be more clear:
I try to keep my system minimal, so I should have turned off recommends since the start. Still, for common users, "recommends" has the same effect than "depends". It's not "their choice", it's *default*, but that's the purpose of it. So, just like you said, if they really want to get vanilla, they'll have to untick it manually (or configure their package managers), which is not that obvious. At least, when sticking with this default behavior (which I did for years), depending on how packages are "informed", it's more or less easy to obtain what we expect. As I see it, the user experience of someone who wants to install PD should have been "okay, I click on puredata, that brings me vanilla, and oh, I'll add puredata-gem with it", rather than "I click on puredata, it installs gem, weird, ah, it is a recommended package, I can untick it (and every of its dependencies) if I want". Puredata is a very modular software by essence, so is it weird to care about offering users a straightforward way to get a barebone version of it ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
