On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 10:49:48PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 10:31:13AM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
> > packages since users ignore suggests and recommends. Or at how many
> > developers have probably added too-tight dependencies because they got
> > tired of their users ignoring suggests and recommends.
>
> Seems like in the installation manual, there should be something
> saying, "If you're new to Debian or are unsure about whether or not
> you should install recommended or suggested packages, install them.
> Once you learn more about the package, you can remove the unused
> recommended or suggested packages later." Perhaps an explaination
> that these packages often are required for the software to operate in
> a manner the user expects.
Point taken.
By the way, aptitude installs all by default. dselect can handle it
too. Only careless apt-get user like me get hit. There is no easy
commandline option to enable this behaviour of pulling recommends and
siggests in apt-get.
Osamu
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