Re: Bug#573929: ITP: libcatalyst-devel-perl -- collection of development tools for Catalyst
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 02:37:42PM -0500, Jonathan Yu wrote:
> If someone installs a package, they expect everything included in the
> package to work. Since we don't know ahead of time which modules a
> person plans to use from the bundle, we have to install dependencies
> for all of them.
Since apt now installs Recommends by default, surely you can bump some of
the less-used Depends down to Recommends? Most users won't see a difference,
but anyone who is concerned about installing too many extra packages can
easily tell apt not to install some of the recommended modules.
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Chris Butler <chrisb@debian.org>
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