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Re: Installation of Recommends by default on October 1st



Le mercredi 01 août 2007 à 21:19 +0100, Neil Williams a écrit :
> On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 21:57:01 +0200
> Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> wrote:
> 
> > Le mercredi 01 août 2007 à 19:14 +0100, Neil Williams a écrit :
> > > Precisely - just what is the benefit?
> > 
> > Stopping to get stupid bug reports from either users not having
> > installed Recommends: and complaining about missing functionality,
> 
> That smacks of a poor manpage/docs more than a need to *force* a change
> in apt behaviour.

Whoa ?

The problem is definitely APT not installing packages it should install
by default, or forcing to install packages that aren't entirely needed
per se. This is a problem in APT and I'm glad to see it fixed in APT.

> apt does NOT install Recommends: by default but it DOES give more
> information on what the recommended packages can actually DO and this
> information is also available to reportbug etc.?

Multiply it by 1000 packages and no one will read it.

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