On Vi, 12 iul 19, 20:21:08, Reco wrote: > > I say - if the user wants to "break" a system by not installing the > Recommends - let them. Whenever it's curiosity, a way of learning > something new or just a wish to do an OS liposuction. Sure. Still, I would avoid recommending (ha!) turning off Recommends except if a poster has a specific problem that might be solved by it (e.g. space constraints). > Either way it won't break (a hint - Recommends weren't always the > default), or the user will learn something new in a process. I'm pretty sure Jonas was around when that happened ;) > Besides, they don't call Debian the Universal OS for nothing. It can > tolerate the surprising amount of "breakage". This is not about "breaking" Debian, but confusing the user (why does mc open gziped files, but not zip?) Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser
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