Re: Don't disable recoomends by default
Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> 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.
There's nothing wrong with suppressing all recommendations by
default, as long as you're willing to go back in and install
particular packages when you realize you want what they do.
-dsr-
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