2009/9/30 maximilian attems <m...@stro.at>: > your box is simply broken if it does not foollow the debian reference, > which explicitly says that recommends have to be installed. > and yes you have negletected the big warnings. > tweaking Debian boxes is fine as long as you understand what you change > and can handle the consequences.
Hello Max, Thank you for your perspective. It's interesting when install recommends became default from what I read at the time it seemed perfectly acceptable to continue running without recommends, and I understand that many people do. Over time it appears that has become less so the case, but I have never seen a big warning and cannot find in the Debian documents where it says that package functionality cannot be guaranteed without 'recommends' being enabled. I am very keen to keep my machines as close to stock and reference as possible so I'm going to considering changing apt back to the default install recommends this weekend. My boxes are highly untuned/tweaked and where possible I run with default configuration files and let the packages themselves look after everything. If I do configure anything my preference is always to use --reconfigure or the package/app using it's own interface. To think I'm meddling with my boxes intricacy's just isn't the case. Overall though, as far as machines that follow the reference Debian install are concerned, I cannot see the distinction now between a hard dependency, and a recommends dependency. Maybe in future there will just be 'dependencies' and 'suggests'; the recommends category is superfluous for a Debian reference install. -- Regards, Sheridan Hutchinson sheri...@shezza.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org