On Sat 13 Jul 2019 at 00:17:49 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 12 iul 19, 20:21:08, Reco wrote: > > > > I say - if the user wants to "break" a system by not installing the > > Recommends - let them. Whenever it's curiosity, a way of learning > > something new or just a wish to do an OS liposuction. > > Sure. > > Still, I would avoid recommending (ha!) turning off Recommends except if > a poster has a specific problem that might be solved by it (e.g. space > constraints). > > > Either way it won't break (a hint - Recommends weren't always the > > default), or the user will learn something new in a process. > > I'm pretty sure Jonas was around when that happened ;) > > > Besides, they don't call Debian the Universal OS for nothing. It can > > tolerate the surprising amount of "breakage". > > This is not about "breaking" Debian, but confusing the user (why does mc > open gziped files, but not zip?)
gzip is already on the system (Priority: required), unzip isn't. But a confused user wouldn't have this in mind. The recommendation is sound. -- Brian.
