On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 11:48:54AM +0200, David Weinehall <tao@debian.org> was heard to say: > Well, the problem is the widespread misuse of Recommends and Depends. > People have a tendency to use Depends where a Recommends would be > enough, and a Recommends where a Suggests would do the trick. > > And until this is corrected, a lot of us won't enable default > installation of Recommendations, simply because our systems get > unnecessarily bloated. I was going to dispute this, but then I took a look at packages held on my system by Recommends alone. It's not pretty. muttprint recommends slrn? tetex-bin recommends texi2html?? w3m-el recommends wv??? And that's just the first three packages I looked at! Daniel
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