Quoting Petter Reinholdtsen (2016-07-18 10:15:26) > [Jonas Smedegaard] >> Tonight I nailed an issue caused by suppressed package >> recommendations: https://bugs.debian.org/831502 >> >> Reporting bugs for systems deliberately broken wastes time! > > I am sad you feel that way, and I get the impression that you assume > all recommendations in Debian are correct and appropriate, I certainly do not expect all recommendations to be correct - hence this other remark which you snipped: > 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. > I assume the following knowledge is well known to you, Jonas, but it > might give some relevant context to Richard. [ details snippet - thanks for that, Petter] > So if you come across a package recommending something you suspect > should be suggests instead, do not be afraid of reporting it as a > wishlist bug report. I fully agree, and such bug hunting is what I meant with the part you snipped (and I re-added above). > When that is said, Jonas is absolutely right that dropping all > recommends by default is not a smart thing to do, as we did spend the > last few years since apt started to install recommends by default to > clean up the packages recommends settings. There are still bugs, for > sure, but they are fewer and further apart than they used to be. :) Thanks for agreeing with me (despite your dramatic intro). - 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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