Re: Installation of Recommends by default on October 1st
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 07:28:27PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Aug 01, Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org> wrote:
>
> > We, the APT Development Team, will change apt to install recommended
> > packages by default on October 1st. This should give enough time to
> Why? What is the point?
The change is meant to make apt follow policy. Policy says:
Recommends
This declares a strong, but not absolute, dependency.
The Recommends field should list packages that would be found
together with this one in all but unusual installations.
apt never really followed that policy. This lead to the current
situation where recommends are used a lot when they are not really
appropriate because only aptitude and dselect enforced them.
If the majority of people feel that the policy is wrong or does not
reflect reality, then we should change policy. But I think the current
wording ("in all but unusual installations") is pretty clear.
Cheers,
Michael
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