Re: RFC: "Recommended bloat", and how to possibly fix ito

2024-11-08 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 8 Nov 2024 12:53:15 +0500, Andrey Rakhmatullin wrote: >On Fri, Nov 08, 2024 at 08:20:46AM +0100, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote: >> Am 8. November 2024 06:42:25 MEZ schrieb Marc Haber >> : >> >Agreed! And I would also love the possibility to directly paste a >> >package list from apt show's out

Re: RFC: "Recommended bloat", and how to possibly fix ito

2024-11-07 Thread Andrey Rakhmatullin
On Fri, Nov 08, 2024 at 08:20:46AM +0100, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote: > Am 8. November 2024 06:42:25 MEZ schrieb Marc Haber > : > >Agreed! And I would also love the possibility to directly paste a > >package list from apt show's output into apt install without having to > >remove the commas. > > >

Re: RFC: "Recommended bloat", and how to possibly fix ito

2024-11-07 Thread IOhannes m zmölnig
Am 8. November 2024 06:42:25 MEZ schrieb Marc Haber : >Agreed! And I would also love the possibility to directly paste a >package list from apt show's output into apt install without having to >remove the commas. > This! mfh.her.fsr IOhannes

Re: RFC: "Recommended bloat", and how to possibly fix ito

2024-11-07 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 8 Nov 2024 03:47:05 +0100, Fay Stegerman wrote: >I personally would consider a "apt install-recs", analogous to "apt build-dep", >quite useful. That would require multiple steps instead of a single command, >but allow installing the recommends for a specific package at any later time, >wh

Re: RFC: "Recommended bloat", and how to possibly fix ito

2024-11-07 Thread Fay Stegerman
* Aaron Rainbolt [2024-11-08 00:21]: [...] > However, this isn't that hard to rectify - rather than specifying the > depth at which apt should stop installing recommends, one can specify > the packages in the dependency tree from which apt should install > recommends from. I.e., to replicate --no-

Re: RFC: "Recommended bloat", and how to possibly fix ito

2024-11-07 Thread Soren Stoutner
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

Re: RFC: "Recommended bloat", and how to possibly fix ito

2024-11-07 Thread Aaron Rainbolt
On Thu, 7 Nov 2024 19:53:27 + 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 r

Re: RFC: "Recommended bloat", and how to possibly fix ito

2024-11-07 Thread Roger Lynn
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 >> contri

Re: RFC: "Recommended bloat", and how to possibly fix ito

2024-11-06 Thread Bill Allombert
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 "Reco