Re: Installing Recommends by default

2007-07-26 Thread Reinhard Tartler
, why not increase it's severity? Chris, what do you think about it? I think this example shows that installing Recommends by default alone is hardly a solution which serves the majority of users. I disagree. I think what it shows is that currently, Debian policy's description

Re: Installing Recommends by default

2007-07-26 Thread Steve Greenland
On 26-Jul-07, 02:25 (CDT), Reinhard Tartler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Still, I think local admins should have the possibility to set a local policy on a package basis for blacklisting packages to bridge until the package gets fixed. man apt_preferences: P 0 prevents

Installing Recommends by default (was: kydpdict relationships)

2007-07-25 Thread Frank Küster
Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (I currently can't ues Recommends by default because of lsb-release, so I have a bit of a vested interest in solutions that don't require that.) What's the problem with lsb-release? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein

Re: Installing Recommends by default (was: kydpdict relationships)

2007-07-25 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 08:26:14AM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (I currently can't ues Recommends by default because of lsb-release, so I have a bit of a vested interest in solutions that don't require that.) What's the problem with lsb-release? $

Re: Installing Recommends by default

2007-07-25 Thread Frank Küster
Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 08:26:14AM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (I currently can't ues Recommends by default because of lsb-release, so I have a bit of a vested interest in solutions that don't require that.)

Re: Installing Recommends by default

2007-07-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 08:26:14AM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (I currently can't ues Recommends by default because of lsb-release, so I have a bit of a vested interest in

Re: Installing Recommends by default

2007-07-25 Thread Steve Langasek
, what do you think about it? I think this example shows that installing Recommends by default alone is hardly a solution which serves the majority of users. I disagree. I think what it shows is that currently, Debian policy's description of the 'Recommends' field is not very well adhered