Re: [RFC] Allow to force or skip Recommends with apt-install

2010-02-08 Thread Otavio Salvador
Hello, On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 8:00 PM, Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl wrote: [...] I think with that setup the separation is much clearer than it currently is and that we'll need less exceptions. It's also a fairly natural separation as it makes things consistent for the whole base system.

Re: [RFC] Allow to force or skip Recommends with apt-install

2010-02-08 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 08 February 2010, Otavio Salvador wrote: I fully agree with you. The number of exceptions are reduced and it is easy to see the separation when things change. OK When do you plan to push those changes? Not before the release. I don't think it's important enough to delay that. --

Re: [RFC] Allow to force or skip Recommends with apt-install

2010-02-07 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 02 February 2010, Frans Pop wrote: I've looked at the consequences of this and things are quite complex. IMO our main goal must be to have installations be as consistent as possible. [...] The alternative would be to go back to always installing without Recommends. I've been

Re: [RFC] Allow to force or skip Recommends with apt-install

2010-02-02 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 08 December 2009, Frans Pop wrote: D-I now always installs Recommends by default, except when base-installer/install-recommends is preseeded to false. However, there are a few specific cases where we want to force installing or not installing Recommends with specific packages,

[RFC] Allow to force or skip Recommends with apt-install

2009-12-08 Thread Frans Pop
D-I now always installs Recommends by default, except when base-installer/install-recommends is preseeded to false. However, there are a few specific cases where we want to force installing or not installing Recommends with specific packages, irrespective of what the default setting is. An

Re: [RFC] Allow to force or skip Recommends with apt-install

2009-12-08 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 08 December 2009, Frans Pop wrote: Patches are not yet tested and intended for after the release. Well, plenty of bugs in the patches (fixed in my local branch now), but the idea works. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: [RFC] Allow to force or skip Recommends with apt-install

2009-12-08 Thread Otavio Salvador
Hello Frans, On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl wrote: On Tuesday 08 December 2009, Frans Pop wrote: Patches are not yet tested and intended for after the release. Well, plenty of bugs in the patches (fixed in my local branch now), but the idea works. I like the

Re: [RFC] Allow to force or skip Recommends with apt-install

2009-12-08 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 08 December 2009, Otavio Salvador wrote: I like the idea and this indeed looks like a quite good design from the technical POV. Cool. I didn't look at the patches right now since you stated that they do have issues and will wait until you post the latest version before to review