The policies here are a little vague.
> because you won't answer all the questions why printing and pc/sc
isn't working out of the box, if the recommends are not installed.
But that is true for any recommended dependency in any package.
> "The Depends field should be used if the depended-on pack
As per Debian Policy Manual, "The Depends field should be used if the
depended-on package is required for the depending package to provide a
significant amount of functionality.", while "the Recommends field
should list packages that would be found together with this one in all
but unusual installa
the only scenario in which recommended packages are not installed is if
they have deliberately been disabled, in which case surely the admin is
intelligent enough to install the package if needed. for the other
99.99% of cases, there will be no issue, as recommended packages will be
installed, and
because you won't answer all the questions why printing and pc/sc isn't
working out of the box, if the recommends are not installed.
fine, if you can come up with a solution which prints a message before
the traceback that some packages need to be installed when they are
used. awaiting your patch
it's really not so much a question of if it hurts, or how much disk
space is needed. it's simply unnecessary. why not just mark the
packages as recommended - especially since for some time now recommended
packages are being installed by default. that way, under default
circumstances the packages
the 40k pc/sc library doesn't hurt. libcups2 installs few more
libraries, but nothing more. if you are concerned with disk space, then
maybe use something different than java.
** Changed in: openjdk-7 (Ubuntu)
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