Andrei POPESCU <andreimpope...@gmail.com> writes: > On Jo, 12 iul 12, 12:10:29, Gergely Nagy wrote: >> >> Erm, how have I broken my system? I did not. (Turning Install-Recommends >> off is definitely not breaking my system, FYI.) > > It means you are running with a non-default configuration and you should > be aware of the side-effects.
I am aware of side-effects, thank you. I turn it off because of the side-effects. That does not make my system broken, however. > Please don't forget that a Recommends will pull in packages in all but > unusual installations :) But also keep in mind, that once a package is installed, adding new recommends will not pull those new things in on an upgrade. I do not think upgrade is an unusual situation, fwiw. For stable, it is, for everything else, not so much. But half the arguments for Recommends (with regards to meta-packages) are invalid for stable anyway. The only valid argument for stable is that apt-get remove gnome will want to remove a whole bunch of stuff. My counter argument is that doing so is safer than screwing up the user's system. -- |8] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87txxcrwu3....@luthien.mhp
