Re: [UPLOADED] RFC: The Future of Solving Dependency Problems in APT (SAT, CUDF)
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 14:33, Michael Tautschnig <mt@debian.org> wrote:
> can expect from "Recommends" - will these packages always be installed or just
> as many as possible or ...? As a user of apt I'd expect that either all of them
> or none of them gets installed (depending on my apt config). Therefore I don't
> see any need for "optional clauses", but I have to admit that I'm not that much
> into apt development.
Debian policy says that recommends are installed on all but unusual systems.
This means for an installation in a stable environment that recommends are
similar to dependencies as they will be installable - minus the rare cases
that a recommend package conflicts with an installed package.
In an unstable environment it could be that a recommend package is
currently not installable, but this shouldn't hinder the installation of the
package recommending it, so its not really an APT thing but policy related.
Best regards
David Kalnischkies
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