On 2017-12-09 at 09:10, Brian wrote: > The Terms and Conditions of installing a Debian package include (as > I'm sure you are aware) accepting the Depends: and Recomends: lines. > What is in these lines can be accepted or rejected and, in the case > of Recommends:, adjusted to suit your needs. Installing the package > necessarily involves making an explicit request for other packages. No, it doesn't. That's the exact distinction between "explicit" and "implicit". -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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