Hi Thijs! Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > It's > common practice to use Recommends in Debian for packages that only enable > certain non-essential functionality in a package. This seems exactly such > a case where the whole of signing-party works fine without the mentioned > package but only one non-essential part does not.
Yes, you are right. Recommends should add non-vital functionality. Like a tray-icon for Pidgin, but Pidgin runs fine without it. The problem is that springgraph crashes without this recommended package. I think no program should crash on a valid Debian installation! And a installation without recommends is valid! > A package for every small script is not really feasible in Debian and the > current way of working with Recommends is a good compromise. Yes, for a small script it is better to add the correct dependencies. > Note that APT by default installs all Recommended packages, so the admin > explicitly needs to remove that package to get into this situation. AFAIK this default has been changes lately and does not affect the validity of a Debian installation. Many admins use '''APT::Install-Recommends "0";''' because they do not like this new behaviour. Greets Per
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