On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 10:49:53AM -0500, David Wright wrote: [ re pulseaudio ]
No, it's not a dependency, but it's just one more thing to have to deal with, picking over which Recommends make a lot of sense to install and which don't; hence the warning.
Apparently Endless¹ implemented a "recommends blacklist" to address a similar situation. I'm aware of others who have built local empty packages that conflict against things they never want to install (systemd iirc). I've never tried either, so I can't vouch for their efficacy. I wonder if it would be nice for apt to have a feature so that a user could mark packages "never install". ¹ https://endlessos.com/ -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.
