Re: Bug#684726: ITP: check_v46 -- Icinga / Nagios plugin for dual stacked (IPv4 / IPv6) hosts
On 08/28/2012 06:05 PM, Don Armstrong wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Aug 2012, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
>> Well but many people disable this, because otherwise you get "tons" of
>> stuff you don't need nor want.
>
> People who disable recommends get to deal with any breakage they
> generate by doing so. Promoting things which should be recommends to
> depends because of this punishes those who are using the system in the
> suggested manner.
Also if you get stuff installed due to being listed in recommends which
is clearly not necessary (like getting a full texlive installation while
installing a tiny nagios plugin), file a bug.
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