Quoting Urs Thuermann (2019-08-05 17:50:17) > Jonas Smedegaard <jo...@jones.dk> writes: > > > Quoting Stephan Seitz (2019-07-12 09:30:38) > > > On Fr, Jul 12, 2019 at 09:13:29 -0300, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > >Wrong. Suggests are for packages useful only "sometimes", > > > >recommends are for pacakges needed in "all but unusual > > > >installations." > > > > > > From my experience this is wrong. > > > > > > With recommends my d10 update would have systemd as init instead > > > of sysvinit. And I would have got (for example) the package > > > debsecan which I donât need. > > > > > > So it is better to disable recommends and look at the recommended > > > packages. > > > > There is nothing wrong in suppressing specific recommendations where > > you understand the implications. > > > > What is wrong is to suppress all recommendations by default.
[ antipattern snipped ] > OTOH, IMHO many packages have recommendations I don't like, especially > if "Recommends:" means it is recommended except in unusual > installations. Please file bugreports! Recommends are defined in Debian as being needed for all but exotic cases - so when that is not the case recommends is used wrongly. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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