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Re: Don't disable recoomends by default



Quoting Stephan Seitz (2019-07-12 09:30:38)
> On Fr, Jul 12, 2019 at 09:13:29 -0300, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> >Wrong.  Suggests are for packages useful only "sometimes", recommends
> >are for pacakges needed in "all but unusual installations."
> 
> From my experience this is wrong.
> 
> With recommends my d10 update would have systemd as init instead of 
> sysvinit. And I would have got (for example) the package debsecan 
> which I don’t need.
> 
> So it is better to disable recommends and look at the recommended 
> packages.

There is nothing wrong in suppressing specific recommendations where you 
understand the implications.

What is wrong is to suppress all recommendations by default.


 - Jonas

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