Neil Williams <codeh...@debian.org> writes: > I haven't allowed Recommends to be installed by default since it became > the default - without problems so far. Makes me think that other > maintainers aren't risking the default implementation being broken when > a Recommends: is missing or else implementing something akin to the > devscripts approach.
Likewise, and continue to occasionally be annoyed by unnecessary Depends. As someone who disables default installation of Recommends, I'm taking responsibility for wanting a minimal system, and I fully expect some things to not work and to have to figure out why. There's a Policy bug about clarifying the wording about Recommends that I'm going to take a look at when I get a chance. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- 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/87pq68suvn....@windlord.stanford.edu
