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Re: perl-doc recommendation



Hello.

Brendan O'Dea wrote:
[snip]
> So you may be able to downgrade the recommendation to a suggests,
> although a better suggestion might be for apt/dpkg to support a
> "Soft-Recommends" which would be installed by default only when the
> package was directly selected, rather than pulled in as a dependency.
If package was directly selected, it will be installed as a regular package. I see no aims
of 'Soft-Recommends' type of dependency.
It seems that 'Suggests' is what you need.

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Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com
Ukrainian C++ developer, Debian APT contributor

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