Re: Opt out style recommends
On 2016, ഏപ്രിൽ 8 9:22:58 AM IST, Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> wrote:
>Only if the sysadmin has disabled recommends, usually they are opt-out
>by default.
I was thinking the same, but when tried it in a cowbuilder --login chroot, letsencrypt was not installed. May be that is cowbuilder/pbuilder defaults.
Thanks for the confirmation.
>> But I would like letsencrypt to be available by default (postinst
>asks if
>> they want to use letsencrypt, there is no way to install letsencrypt
>after
>> that question).
>
>What about `dpkg-reconfigure gitlab`?
I have not tested it yet. I'll test it.
>> May be we could add a field like Optional, which will be like Depends
>unless
>> removed manually.
>
>That is exactly what Recommends means, unless you configure your
>system to treat it like Suggests (which many sysadmins do).
Like I said above, cowbuilder defaults to not installing recommends.
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