Quoting Adam Borowski (2016-04-08 21:05:23) > On Thu, Apr 07, 2016 at 11:49:38PM -0400, Harlan Lieberman-Berg wrote: >> [1]: I say default here, but really, systems which turn off >> installing things which are Recommended are almost unusuable; I know >> for a while it was the policy of #debian to just turn away people who >> had done that because the system would be in such a strange state. > > To the contrary, I'd say Recommends chains have ran amok to the point > installing Recommends without thinking leads to insanity. > > When you install package X, its Recommends are indeed usually helpful. > The Recommends of a random library package X pulls almost never are.
Please file bugs against libraries with too aggressive recommendations - that's the way forward (not avoiding recommendations altogether). - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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