On Fri, Nov 22, 2024 at 5:49 AM Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org> wrote: > > Hi! > > On Tue, 2024-11-05 at 17:35:59 -0600, Aaron Rainbolt wrote: > > With all this in mind, I'd like to call some attention to a feature > > request made by Patrick Schleizer some time ago, whom I've copied on > > this email. The feature request suggests the addition of a new field to > > Debian's binary dependency relationship fields, "Weak-Depends".[4] In > > Patrick's own words, Weak-Depends "[d]eclares a weak dependency. Most > > users of this package may benefit from installing packages listed in > > this field, but can have reasonable functionality without them." The > > exact way in which this would be implemented is that Weak-Depends > > packages would get installed when using `apt install > > --no-install-recommends package`, but any package listed there could be > > removed without removing the package which referenced the Weak-Depends. > > > [4]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=942303 > > Given the discussion in this thread, and the feedback on such > potential new field, which matched my own take, I'll be closing the > above bug report, which I had left open in case there was some other > very compelling reason to support it or wide agreement this was > desirable.
Sounds good to me. I think so far the solution with the most promise is going to be adding an option to apt for precise control of Recommends installation, so I'll hopefully be working on that in the coming days. Thanks, Aaron > Thanks, > Guillem >
