Re: Setting hostnames with hostnamectl on AWS AMIs, missing dbus?

[Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>]

Le Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 05:12:38AM +0100, Anders Jackson a écrit :
> 
> Software that is packed and installed in Debian should, and must, work.

Hi Anders,

I think that you are conflating issues.  Ultimately, you are challenging
the semantics of Depends and Recommends.

If one installs Debian using the Debian Installer, where "Recommended"
dependencies are installed by default, everything works.

It is possible to install packages with only their strictest
dependencies, that is, without the "Recommended" ones.  This opens many
ways to customise Debian, and here it is used to make minimal images.
But it may be necessary to cherry-pick some extra packages to reach the
wanted result.  Here, it means adding dbus to the image.

Have a nice day,

Charles

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