On Tuesday 02 February 2010, Frans Pop wrote: > I've looked at the consequences of this and things are quite complex. > IMO our main goal must be to have installations be as consistent as > possible. [...] > The alternative would be to go back to always installing without > Recommends.
I've been thinking this over some more and given the exceptions that would be needed for boot related packages installed during base-installer, I think that it makes most sense to change how we set using recommends or not. - debootstrap effectively installs packages without Recommends - after that initially configure APT to not use Recommends This means that any packages queued early will be installed without Recommends and effectively solves the problems with the boot related packages. And it's still possible to install packages with Recommends by explicitly calling apt-setup --with-recommends. - at the end of base-installer, reconfigure APT to match the debconf setting for installing Recommends So anything installed after that will get installed according to the debconf setting, unless apt-setup is explicitly called with either --with-recommends or --no-recommends. I think with that setup the separation is much clearer than it currently is and that we'll need less exceptions. It's also a fairly natural separation as it makes things consistent for the whole base system. Thoughts? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
