Hi, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting Axel Beckert (2014-05-15 12:40:46) > > Martín Ferrari wrote: > >> It's probably a bit too late to say this (sorry, I came late to the > >> discussion), but probably it would be a better idea to make that > >> recommends a depends (or at least a prominent notice in Debian.NEWS), > >> as many people who uses this maybe has already disabled > >> auto-installation of recommends, and surprise breakage would happen. > > > > I disagree. The default is auto-installation of Recommends. If an > > adminstator disables that, he has to live with the consequences. > > I agree with Axel about users choosing to ignore recommendations. > > We must, however, care for packages _build-depending_ on one of the > bundle packages, as those do not take recommends into account - so until > the following packages have switched to build-depend on bundle packages > only as fallback for their real dependency, bundle packages must depend, > not only recommend, new plain packages I agree with Jonas. Haven't thought about that. :-) Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE `- | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5
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