Quoting Reco (2019-07-12 09:34:17) > On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 09:13:29AM -0300, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Quoting Reco (2019-07-12 09:01:33) > > > > > Disabling installing Recommends by default also helps a great > > > > > deal with all those dependencies you don't want. > > > > > > > > Above may break your system in confusing to debug ways, > > > > > > Rly? Recommends are called that for a reason. > > > > Yes, and the reason is well defined: Packages requires in "all but > > unusual installations." - quoted from Debian Policy §7.2. > > This only shows us that one can prove anything by using selective > quoting. Full quote, btw is: > > This declares a strong, but not absolute, dependency. > The Recommends field should list packages that would be found together > with this one in all but unusual installations. > > > Therefore Debian Policy explicitly says that Recommends are not > required. Sorry if you feel that I mislead you by quoting narrowly. I fail to recognize how your larger quote changes my point of mine, however. Indeed Debian policy do not _require_ recommendations. They do however recommend to install them except in unusual installations. Turning off recommendations is saying "this system is unusual in all possible ways" which I insist is wrong and bad advice! - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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