Re: APT recommendations/suggestions not obvious
On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 11:40:06PM +0300, Shachar Or wrote:
> Hi.
>
> why doesn't aptitude show me for what purpose a package reccomends or suggests
> another?
>
> I'd very much like that because sometimes, perhaps many times, I can't guess
> it and even if I can guess it, how do I know?
>
> I find that many times README.Debian doesn't mention those things.
>
> Any thoughts about this?
Yeah, why does "podracer" _depend_ on "screen"? I'd even be skeptical if it
was a suggests. Since recommends are now installed automatically and
recommends are considered a weak depends anyway, if you turn set install
recommends to false you could end up with non-working features.
If you find any packages where the recommends should obviously be a
suggests, please file a bug.
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Chris.
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than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other
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