[Daniel Burrows] > I'm in favor of either enabling this by default in apt or downgrading > Recommends in policy to just a "really Suggests". [snip interesting background material]
I would suggest - nay, I would recommend - keeping Policy the way it is and fixing packages to use Recommends as it was intended. It is a very useful semantic and I wouldn't want to see it get lost. We already have Suggests, after all. > This has led to a situation where I occasionally hear things like > this statement, from a developer whose incorrect Recommendation was > being obeyed by aptitude and breaking the system: > > "It's things like this that encourage me to continue using apt-get > instead of aptitude!" Simply astonishing. I hope the developer was roundly larted, by you or someone else, with a copy of Policy printed on heavy paper and hardbound with brass accents. Peter
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