Hi all, thanks Bas for the explanation. I believe the default should be no DE - how can be the chain of deps be broken? Cheers.
Il 19/05/20 08:47, Sebastiaan Couwenberg ha scritto: > On 5/19/20 7:46 AM, Uros Preloznik wrote: >> Can anyone explain why was this change necessary? > > The problem seems to be: > > qgis-server Depends: > python3-qgis Depends: > python3-qgis-common Depends: > libqgis-customwidgets Depends: > qttools5-dev-tools Depends: > qt5-assistant Depends: > libqt5webkit5 Depends: > libqt5positioning5 Recommends: > geoclue-2.0 Depends: > libnotify4 Recommends: > gnome-shell | notification-daemon > > And via gnome-shell you many more gnome packages installed. > > The change to install Recommends by default was announced in October 2007: > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/08/msg00000.html > > This makes sense because the Debian Policy documents Recommends as: > > " > The Recommends field should list packages that would be found together > with this one in all but unusual installations. > " > > > https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#binary-dependencies-depends-recommends-suggests-enhances-pre-depends > > Kind Regards, > > Bas > -- Paolo Cavallini www.faunalia.eu - QGIS.org training, support, development on QGIS, PostGIS and more _______________________________________________ QGIS-Developer mailing list QGIS-Developer@lists.osgeo.org List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer