On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 06:55:43PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli <z...@debian.org> was heard to say: > I don't think that the mere fact that we changed the default behavior > of apt-get/aptitude should get in the way of that maintainer's > choice. If we used to live in a world where, by maintainer choice, doc > was not installed by default, that world should IMO stay the same.
aptitude's behavior was "changed" in 2001. It was changed because Recommends has always meant that the package manager should automatically select the recommended package when the recommending package was selected. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
