On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 07:43:26PM -0500, T.J. Duchene wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Franco Lanza [mailto:next...@nexlab.it] > > Sent: Thursday, April 2, 2015 5:36 PM > > To: dng@lists.dyne.org > > Subject: [Dng] What do you guys think about "Suggest" and "Recommends" > > dependency? > > > > Personally on debian i was using from date > > > > APT:Install-Recommends "0"; > > APT:Install-Suggests "0"; > > > > in all my install apt.conf. > > > > I don't like apt downloading and installing things that are not required > but > > just recommended or suggested, expecially in server or embedded envs, but > > also on my desktop. > > > > What do you think if we make this the default in devuan? > > > [T.J. ] Personally, I love the idea. However, in certain instances, like > "-dev" packages or "build environments", where the recommended should really > be followed. I'd follow it wherever Perl or Python is involved as well, > even if you aren't working on code, just to make sure everything works > smoothly.
No, this is fundamentally incorrect. Building should always be deterministic. This means never ever using Suggests or Recommends. sbuild, for example, always sets APT::Install-Recommends=false. In addition, it will also drop conditional dependencies so that only the first will be used, again for determinism. Less strict behaviour is fine when installing packages for a developer to use on their development machine, but for automated/final builds for deployment elsewhere, such as Debian package building, it's essential that the necessary packages are completely and unambiguously specified with plain Depends. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools `- GPG Public Key F33D 281D 470A B443 6756 147C 07B3 C8BC 4083 E800 _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
