Le 14/07/2016 à 13:51, Scott Leggett a écrit : > > If a package really does recommend other packages which are useless, you > should file a bug on that package, not just start blindly using > --no-install-recommends everywhere. It is a never ending debate. If installing recommended packages is the default, then it is more like a dependency, since the package will get installed anyway. That's why APT::Install-Recommends "false" is in my apt.conf. When I install a package, I read the summary, and decide by myself to install or not some or all recommended packages. There should be an "ask" value by the way. However, when a builtin code is moved to a recommended package, it can broke some systems. So the changelog should clearly mentionned that the split is done in a recommended package, because apt does not do that.
> The relationship between pulseaudio and pulseaudio-module-udev matches > the Policy description of the Recommends field. I totally trust you on this point. However, the arguable issue we have here is when a new recommended package is created with some previously builtin features. Adrien
