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Re: Recommends: tetex-doc?



Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:

> Hence I/we(?) have decided to put
> tetex-doc into Recommend, 

I haven't decided in fact, but I agree, and would vote against a
change. 

> If a package manager forces the user to install a package, which is
> not in (Pre-)Depend, it is broken and should be fixed! At least
> apt-get and deselect don't do that IIRC.

Aptitude seems to install Recommends in the standard configuration. But
you can change this, or override it for that particular package.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie



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