On Thu, Mar 09, 2017 at 12:22:17PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > >> If you don't want possibly unused software installed, we have a > >> supported mechanism for that: disable automatic installation of > >> Recommends. > > > Which explodes from time to time, like when ntpdate and ntpd only > > recommended lockfile-progs (#731976). > > Sure, but hopefully we find and report those as bugs. I personally run > without recommends on Debian unstable on several different types of > systems and report these problems whenever I run into them. But how do you decide if a specific problem caused by Recommends not installed is serious enough to be worth a bug report? "all but unusual installations" after all. -- WBR, wRAR
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