Quoting Reco (2019-07-12 09:01:33) > > > Disabling installing Recommends by default also helps a great deal > > > with all those dependencies you don't want. > > > > Above may break your system in confusing to debug ways, > > Rly? Recommends are called that for a reason.
Yes, and the reason is well defined: Packages requires in "all but unusual installations." - quoted from Debian Policy ยง7.2. > If Recommend is actually needed for the correct functioning of the > package - it's a bug in a package. Wrong. If a package is possibly to use for any purpose at all, even if exotic and unusual, then it makes sense to recommend instead of depend on a package. > Recommends are useful sometime, and it's a useful default to install > them. But it comes with the cost and the cost is a dependency bloat. Wrong. Suggests are for packages useful only "sometimes", recommends are for pacakges needed in "all but unusual installations." - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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