Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 08:26:14AM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: >>> Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>> (I currently can't ues Recommends by default because of lsb-release, so I >>>> have a bit of a vested interest in solutions that don't require that.) >>> What's the problem with lsb-release? >> $ apt-cache show lsb-release | grep Rec >> Recommends: lsb, apt >> $ apt-cache show lsb | grep Dep >> Depends: lsb-core, lsb-graphics, lsb-cxx, lsb-desktop, lsb-qt4 >> $ >> That makes for some rather hefty packages pulled in via this Recommends >> line. > I see. I had the impression that there is a consensus that our tools > should install Recommends by default in lenny. If that is the only bug > that really causes a problem in this respect, why not increase it's > severity? Chris, what do you think about it? Chris apparently concurs and just hadn't had time to look at my bug (which wasn't that old), as a new version was just uploaded without that Recommends. Thank you very much! I'm much less attached to being able to turn off Recommends now. :) (lsb-release is very handy for configuration management systems such as Puppet.) -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
