Re: use of Recommends by vlc to force users to use pipewire
On 2022-05-16 16:14:02 +0000, Bill Allombert wrote:
> On Mon, May 16, 2022 at 12:56:03AM +0200, Sebastian Ramacher wrote:
> > And for the record: you get pipewire installed because libpipewire-0.3-0
> > recommends it.
>
> For a similar situation, I advocated to add a apt option so that apt
> only install Recommends of the packages on the command line, but not
> Recommends of dependencies (and not Recommends of Recommends).
> This would make recommends more usable but less deterministic.
So, if I understand correctly, this implies that if a package A needs
package B and package B recommends package C, and if it happens that
A needs C, then package A should also depend on or recommend C.
And what about upgrades? Should Recommends be checked only for
manually installed packages?
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