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Re: Can imagemagick really be safely purged or removed?



On Tue, 24 Oct 2017 08:52:46 +0200
Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> wrote:

> I forgot that you showed the dependency on cups-filters in your original mail.
> On testing cups-filters 1.17.9-1 does not depend on imagemagick, it only
> recommends it. And I use APT::Install-Recommends "false"; in /etc/apt/apt.conf.
> Therefore, on this system imagemagick could be removed.

Interesting, thanks. So they changed the dependency from 'depends' to
'recommends', but they're still 'recommending' a dummy package.

Celejar


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