Jonas Smedegaard <jo...@jones.dk> writes: > Quoting Russ Allbery (2017-03-09 04:24:09)
>> In general, I don't want to see us place too many restrictions on >> Recommends. If you don't want additional helpful programs, disable >> installing Recommends by default. I think it's very odd to worry >> about bloat while simultaneously installing Recommends by default; >> those aren't really consistent things to do. > I strongly disagree: We _can_ improve on the default behaviour of our > package handling - we need not give up and leave it to power users able > to handle arguably broken systems. Well, I strongly disagree with you. I think this would take things in the wrong direction; I like that software is fully useful when Recommends are enabled at the cost of some bloat. If you don't want possibly unused software installed, we have a supported mechanism for that: disable automatic installation of Recommends. That said, it's certainly still fine to question individual choices, and to request a downgrade to Suggests if the provided benefit is marginal. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>