On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 01:02:05PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 12:31:06PM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 01:30:39PM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: > > > Then it's time to go over the entire package data base and make sure > > this is true. When I update My debian testing system in aptitude, it > > often comes up with a liet of recommended packages that wouldnt interest > > me at all. Such as, for example, documentation in Estonian. Or > > plug-ins for hardware I don't have. Or the like. > > And have you filed bug reports on these packages when you've encountered > this? The only way these are going to be addressed is if users who find > such issues report them.
No, because I didn't think they were bugs -- I thought that when a package I was installing recommended another that it meant I should consider whether I wanted to use these other packages too. Often the answer was "no". Sometimes it was "yes" and I appreciated the recommendation. And aptitude didn't automatically install them without first giving me a chance to say "yes". So this seems like a change in the meaning of "recommends" to me, although I admit it may just be an end to my misunderstanding. So making the meaning of "recommends" crystal clear is a good idea. I quite realize that going over the entire package data base reviewing recommendations is impractical. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
