So, that change was made in tasksel three months ago, near to the start what was, AFAIK at the time, a 1.5 year release cycle. This was done in full knowledge that enabling recommends would take some time to sort out, including getting debian-cd to disable NORECOMMENDS and maybe handle recommends more intelligently; dealing with demotion of unnecessary recommends; and dealing with any size increase issues. If the current release timeframe[1] is not long enough to sort these issues out, perhaps the release team should be told about that. Or perhaps someone will want to revert this -- but you get to own all the issues of the installer not installing recommends while maintainers assume it will. Frans Pop wrote: > Losing network-manager-gnome from CD1 seems like a fairly major issue > to me. Oddly it didn't seem to be treated as a big deal by a lot of people when it happened to stable CD1. :-/ [users disabling recommends] > IMO maintainers of desktop tasks do *not* have to worry about this. But they clearly do: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=22;att=0;bug=542095 | In the end this is possible, and you’re not the first one to ask, but | then we’ll get bug reports from stupid users asking why this or that | functionality doesn’t work, while Recommends have not been installed. -- see shy jo [1] Is anyone even knows that that is anymore.
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