On Tue 06 Aug 2019 at 08:41:53 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 05 aug 19, 22:50:17, Urs Thuermann wrote: > > Jonas Smedegaard <jo...@jones.dk> writes: > > > > > > What is wrong is to suppress all recommendations by default. > > > > 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. > > > > OTOH, IMHO many packages have recommendations I don't like, especially > > if "Recommends:" means it is recommended except in unusual > > installations. > > > > For example a number of packages (e.g. geeqie) recommend cups or lpr > > although it's not that unusual to not have a printer. > > True. It would also provide a very bad experience for those that do have > a printer, but can't guess they need to install this peculiar package > named "cups" to make it work.
The recommended package is cups-bsd not cups, which is a different animal. The history of why it a Recommends: is in the changelog. The maintainer's approach to the issue seems measured to me. -- Brian.
