Quoting Jonas Smedegaard (2016-07-17 15:17:57) > Quoting Richard Owlett (2016-07-17 14:39:33) >> On 7/17/2016 6:42 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >>> Quoting Richard Owlett (2016-07-17 13:14:24) >>>> Over the next week or so I will do a series of manual installs that >>>> will begin with a standard CLI setup then use apt-get to install >>>> Mate: >>>> 1. using standard metapackages (with recommends activated) >>>> 2. using standard metapackages (with recommends DE-activated) >>>> 3. using chosen components of Mate (with recommends activated) >>>> 4. using chosen components of Mate (with recommends DE-activated) >>> >>> In case it was not clear from my previous posts: I have *no* >>> interest in your experiments with disabling recommends, not matter >>> the outcome. >> >> But the results will guide me in choosing whether or not to pursue >> the issue. If they turn out as I expect, it will point out a problem >> with either how recommends is implemented or how it is documented. My >> logical quandary is "If recommends must always be active, why aren't >> they in depends?" Tonight I nailed an issue caused by suppressed package recommendations: https://bugs.debian.org/831502 Reporting bugs for systems deliberately broken wastes time! You are free to sidestep Debian logics, but beware that doing so renders your system broken in from the POV of Debian - no matter if in your POV it works fine. Please pretty please don't. I suppress some recommendations, but carefully consider each single case - I would love to help inspect single cases with you but general suppression is literally nonsense. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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