On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 07:17:01PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote:
> > > The package relationship described above makes it much harder
> > > for a user to just run apt-get install and have things work out of the
> > > box without manually specifying a second run to end up with what they
> > > really want. Do you really think that:
> > > apt-get install clamav-daemon
> > > apt-get install clamav-freshclam
> > > apt-get remove clamav-data-bootstrap
> > >
> > > is an intuitive way to arrive at what you wanted in the first place?
> >
> > Uh, no, that would be:
> >
> > aptitude install --without-recommends clamav-daemon clamav-freshclam
> >
> > There is no second run.
>
> That's my point - that results in no database files on disk when clamd's
> postinst is run, resulting in it failing to start.
Erm, surely people who purposely evade recommends can be expected to know
how to handle such a situation?
> That's not really acceptable to save a few megabytes of download on
> dist-upgrade.
Well, that would be on every upgrade, not just dist-upgrade. With the amount
of security bugs that happen these days, that's a burden.
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