On Mon, Aug 05, 2019 at 10:50:17PM +0200, Urs Thuermann wrote: > Jonas Smedegaard <jo...@jones.dk> writes: > > > Quoting Stephan Seitz (2019-07-12 09:30:38)
[...]
> I have done this for years now, i.e. I have
>
> APT::Install-Recommends "false";
>
> in /etc/apt/apt.conf and I haven't had any problems, unexpected
> behavior or non-functional software packages.
So have I. Happy camper. Of course, you've got to know what you're
doing -- at least a little.
Honestly I find the strong reactions to this ("anti-pattern", etc.)
downright disturbing. I'm in free software generally, and in Debian
particularly, because they don't try to impose things on their
users. There's far too much authoritarian software out there as
it is.
Of course, the more you delve under the hood, the more responsibility
you take for your system, but "do it like this or else" is to me
the real anti-pattern.
And now let me get down from my soapbox and hand it over to someone
else :-)
Cheers
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