Andrey Rahmatullin <w...@debian.org> writes: > On Thu, Mar 09, 2017 at 10:14:13AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> If you don't want possibly unused software installed, we have a >> supported mechanism for that: disable automatic installation of >> Recommends. > Which explodes from time to time, like when ntpdate and ntpd only > recommended lockfile-progs (#731976). Sure, but hopefully we find and report those as bugs. I personally run without recommends on Debian unstable on several different types of systems and report these problems whenever I run into them. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
