On July 10, 2012 10:39:10 AM Sune Vuorela wrote: > On 2012-07-10, Gergely Nagy <[email protected]> wrote: > > No. Only if installing recommends is turned on, which cannot be > > guaranteed. > > There is many ways to break your system. turning off installation of > recommends is one of them.
So, if Recommends should always be installed--effectively turning them into Depends--why do Recommends exist... Not installing a Recommended package shouldn't break your system, functionality will be reduced but if it breaks then the package probably should be Depended upon or split into depended and recommended upon parts. - Bruce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
