On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 04:21:30PM -0400, Joe Smith wrote: > > "Frans Pop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >On Tuesday 11 October 2005 21:34, Daniel Burrows wrote: > >> No, because people like to turn off the installation of > >>recommendations > > > >Or yes, because it offers more flexibility to people who have a basic idea > >of what they are doing. > > Exactly. Unless you plan to examine each and every reccomendation of each > and every package you install then you should not turn off reccomendation > installation. > > Recoomendations are intended to be weak depends. In other words > recommendations mean: "This package does not actually NEED the listed > packages, but it is unlikely you will want to install this package without > the listed package." An even better way to think of it is a Depends that > can be overridden without apt complaining.
Well, the problem is the widespread misuse of Recommends and Depends. People have a tendency to use Depends where a Recommends would be enough, and a Recommends where a Suggests would do the trick. And until this is corrected, a lot of us won't enable default installation of Recommendations, simply because our systems get unnecessarily bloated. Regards: David Weinehall -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Rime on my window (\ // ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ // Diamond-white roses of fire // \) http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/ (/ Beautiful hoar-frost (/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
