On Thursday, November 7, 2024 12:53:27 PM MST Roger Lynn wrote: > On 06/11/2024 19:20, Bill Allombert wrote: > > Le Tue, Nov 05, 2024 at 05:35:59PM -0600, Aaron Rainbolt a écrit : > >> Hello, and thanks for your time. > >> > >> I've been a Debian user and contributor for a while, and have noticed a > >> rather frustrating issue that I'm interested in potentially > >> contributing code to fix. The issue is what I call "Recommended bloat", > >> which in short is what happens when you install a package with all of > >> its recommended packages, and end up with a whole lot of stuff installed > >> that you don't want and that the package you actually wanted probably > >> didn't even need. > > > > A proposal I made was an option for apt to handle Recommends non > > recursively. > > That is if A Recommends B and B Recommends C, > > apt-get install A --no-transitive-recommends > > would install B but not C. > > This, please! >
I should have noted previously (I apologize for not doing so) that the objections I have voiced to some of the proposals do not apply to this proposal. If having this type of option would be helpful (and if the maintainers of apt don't have objections to someone implementing this) than I also do have any objections as it doesn't cause any extra work for package maintainers in general and it doesn't change the way Recommends works for people who chose not to use this argument. -- Soren Stoutner so...@debian.org
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