Re: Bug#532515: handling of Recommends (was: on making decisions vs letting things happen)

2009-07-06 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: > I don't think policy for Recommends is wrong, but I do feel it results to > a hell of a lot of packages getting installed that are not actually > needed/wanted in practice. We have a whole release cycle to sort this out now. > IMO the special handling of Recommends in D-I >

Re: Bug#532515: handling of Recommends (was: on making decisions vs letting things happen)

2009-07-06 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 06 July 2009, Colin Watson wrote: > So does that mean you feel that the policy manual's description of > Recommends is wrong, or that Debian installations should be unusual by > default? I don't think policy for Recommends is wrong, but I do feel it results to a hell of a lot of package

Re: Bug#532515: on making decisions vs letting things happen

2009-07-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 03:53:06PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Sunday 05 July 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > > I must say that I'm not at all sure that the change to include > > Recommends wasn't done prematurely or too lightly. It is quite likely > > to also affect the server tasks in quite a big way a