On Tue, 2019-06-04 at 19:06 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Adam Williamson: > > > As a side note, if your goal is "to maintain a minimal system > > installation", perhaps what you might want is to be able to configure > > dnf to simply *never* install weak (Recommends) or very weak (Suggests) > > dependencies. IIRC, this is configurable on SUSE - you can set this as > > permanent package manager configuration. I'm not sure if it is in DNF, > > but if not, perhaps it could be? > > My experience with Debian is that their --no-install-recommends feature > is pretty aggressive, so you often end up manually chasing dependencies > to get the required feature set if you disable the default of installing > weak dependencies. So it's usually more convenient to install them > automatically, and the remove select parts you don't want. YMMV, of > course.
Well, I mean, the 'aggression' or otherwise is determined by the *packages*, not the package manager, surely? It's up to the individual packager where they draw the line between a Requires: and a Recommends:, so long as they abide by distro policy, which has a little to say about this but not a lot. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
