Pierre Habouzit wrote: > I mean, recommends means that having the recommends installed may e.g. > enable some additionnal features in your package. No, recommends means that: This declares a strong, but not absolute, dependency. You're thinking of suggests: This is used to declare that one package may be more useful with one or more others. > See openoffice.org, I think it recommends java or many things like that. > If I don't want to install java and the hundreds of megabytes it come > with, how am I supposed to do ? > > apt-cache show openoffice.org-writer |grep Recom > Recommends: openoffice.org-filter-binfilter, gij | java-gcj-compat | j2re1.4 | java2-runtime, openoffice.org-java-common (>> 2.2.0-4) apt-get install openoffice.org gij- ? -- see shy jo
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