On 08/28/2012 06:05 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Tue, 28 Aug 2012, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: >> Well but many people disable this, because otherwise you get "tons" of >> stuff you don't need nor want. > > People who disable recommends get to deal with any breakage they > generate by doing so. Promoting things which should be recommends to > depends because of this punishes those who are using the system in the > suggested manner.
Also if you get stuff installed due to being listed in recommends which is clearly not necessary (like getting a full texlive installation while installing a tiny nagios plugin), file a bug. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de http://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- 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/503e070c.4050...@bzed.de
