Quoting Arnaud Rebillout (2024-03-06 02:26:00) > On 05/03/2024 9:22 pm, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2024-01-15 11:15:32 -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > >> For example, when I implemented libuuid, if you want to create a huge > >> number of UUID's very quickly, because you're a large enterprise > >> resource planning application, the the uuidd daemon will allow > >> multiple processes to request "chunks" of UUID space, and create > >> unique UUID's without having to having to go through some kind of > >> locking protocol using a single shared state file. > >> > >> So libuuid works just fine without uuidd, but if you are populating a > >> large ERP system, then you very much will want uuidd to be installed. > >> So in that case, you can make the dependency relationship be either > >> suggests or recommends, instead of a hard dependency. > > Except that in Debian, this is a "Recommends:", and "Recommends:" > > are normally installed by default... except by the Debian installer! > > This is inconsistent. > > This is not correct. The majority of the packages installed by the > installer are in fact installed via tasksel, and it does install > "Recommends:". The command is there: > https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/tasksel/-/blob/546b5b99e81bfb69b88de105b6fc78fceacb5ee1/tasksel.pl#L930. > > However it's true that some packages are installed before that, at the > debootstrap stage, and I guess debootstrap doesn't honor "Recommends:"? Correct. This is tracked as bug#742977 - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ * Sponsorship: https://ko-fi.com/drjones [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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