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Re: Don't disable recoomends by default



Quoting Urs Thuermann (2019-08-05 17:50:17)
> Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk> writes:
> 
> > 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.

[ antipattern snipped ]

> OTOH, IMHO many packages have recommendations I don't like, especially 
> if "Recommends:" means it is recommended except in unusual 
> installations.

Please file bugreports!

Recommends are defined in Debian as being needed for all but exotic 
cases - so when that is not the case recommends is used wrongly.


 - Jonas

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