Bug#543256: Make installing recommends optional
Hello Frans,
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 7:25 PM, Frans Pop<elendil@planet.nl> wrote:
> Attached patches (untested, but straightforward) for three components:
> - base-installer, where the question is asked (at medium priority) and APT
> is configured accordingly; the setting will persist for the installed
> system;
> - di-utils: apt-install will now respect the global setting instead of
> always ignoring Recommends;
> - pkgsel: same, and drop now redundant option to include Recommends for
> "include" (preseeded additional) packages.
[...]
I enjoyed the patches a lot. The only thing I guess we might consider
doing is loggin when pkgsel/include/install-recommends is used.
This can help people to notice that the behaviour has change and that
they need to update their preseeding files.
In this case I think it is worth since it will be quite difficult to
user to notice it otherwise.
> I see two main advantages to going this way:
> - empower our more professional and experienced users;
> - D-I will be a lot more consistent, instead of some components behaving
> one way and some the other.
+1
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