On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Adeodato Simó wrote: > * Bart Samwel [Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:32:57 +0100]: > > Hello Bart. While I understand your reasoning, it may be now the time to > revisit it: > > > or Recommends which > > behaves exactly like Depends (like some package managers treat Recommends, > > but not all), > > As announced in [1] and can be seen in [2], apt now will install > recommends by default. And I'm not sure off hand, if not demoting your > Depends to Recommends would warrant a RC bug. > > [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/08/msg00000.html > [2] http://packages.qa.debian.org/a/apt/news/20071023T154702Z.html
The problem is not so much on manually installed package but on initial installation. I'm not sure what would get installed via the laptop task if we made that a Recommends... Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Premier livre français sur Debian GNU/Linux : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/