Frans Pop wrote: > I don't think policy for Recommends is wrong, but I do feel it results to > a hell of a lot of packages getting installed that are not actually > needed/wanted in practice.
We have a whole release cycle to sort this out now. > IMO the special handling of Recommends in D-I > so far was justified, especially as we did consciously compensate for not > installing Recommends by default by adding them to the task definitions > in cases where they were really needed/wanted. I seemed to be approximatly the only one doing that, and am inactive though.. > I feel that the change could have been discussed more before being > implemented in tasksel, possibly with some coordinated effort to check > the impact on _all_ tasks instead of just the Gnome desktop task and > maybe filing bugs to fix the most problematic Recommends. Yes, a non-inactive person to handle this in tasksel would have done much better than me. -- see shy jo
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