On Ma, 15 sep 20, 18:50:57, David Wright wrote: > On Tue 15 Sep 2020 at 21:23:20 (+0200), Fabrice BAUZAC-STEHLY wrote: > > > > Do you think the behaviour "without Recommends" should be an option > > presented to the user? > > No. On the basis of little evidence, I think naive users need software > installed that offers its full functionality. The more sophisticated > users who yearn after simplicity can easily find out how to prevent > Recommends from being installed. +1 > But also bear in mind that not so many people have actually run the > debian-installer itself without Recommended packages being installed. > I certainly never have (I don't know how to do it), even though at > one time I ran an already installed system in that manner. Perhaps > a "show of hands" is in order. Is it pain-free? For installs small enough to benefit from this I generally use debootstrap/mmdebstrap. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser
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