Michael Vogt wrote: > - support for the new dpkg "Breaks" field (thanks to Ian Jackson for > his work on this)
Although dpkg still doesn't have Breaks support, so we still can't use it, AFAIK.. > - automatic installation of recommends like aptitude I want to check how this will affect d-i. The Recommends tree is still fairly hairy/unrefined and can result in a lot of crud being pulled in. (See #388290. Though having them installed by default would certianly add pressure to fix the bogus ones.) Two scenarios I'm interested in: 1. If tasksel runs aptitude --without-recommends, will that be enough to avoid recommends still, or will an additonal flag now be needed? 2. Will the many parts of d-i that run apt-get -y install <foo> need to be changed to pass some sort of flag to avoid pulling in recommends? -- see shy jo
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