On Lu, 23 iul 12, 12:00:37, Mark Allums wrote: > > > >True, but the downside is that you're going to experience random, > >confusing absences of functionality in various applications, and it can > >sometimes be difficult to figure out why ... > > It's dependency hell. Removing one highly useless package will very > often remove 98% of GNOME and another 120 packages. I think this > idea of recommended packages should be restricted to dialog box > advisories only, and with good explanations as to why they they are > recommended.
I think you are missing the point: if a package is only recommended removing it would not remove 98% of Gnome. Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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