Re: deselect survey
On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 02:42:07AM +0100, Paul Seelig wrote:
> bab@debian.org (Ben Burton) writes:
>
> > FWIW, I wouldn't give that advice to a user myself. I get bug reports on
> > a relatively frequent basis from users who apt-get install something,
> > miss out on the recommends as a result and then complain that feature X
> > isn't working properly.
> >
> That's not a bug but a feature! :-)
>
> One major reason why i prefer apt-get above all those user friendly
> frontends is that this way i'm simply not bothered with unwanted
> installs of recommended packages i'd never ever care about anyway.
If you'd never ever care about a recommended package, it probably
shouldn't be recommended in the first place.
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