Re: [DNG] [Dng] What do you guys think about "Suggest" and "Recommends" dependency?

2016-08-01 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 1 Aug 2016 23:04:25 +0200 Adam Borowski wrote: > On Mon, Aug 01, 2016 at 11:36:23AM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > A case in point is asciidoc. It's used to generate HTML pages and > > books. To do books it recommends other sofftware that takes about > > a

Re: [DNG] [Dng] What do you guys think about "Suggest" and "Recommends" dependency?

2016-08-01 Thread Adam Borowski
On Mon, Aug 01, 2016 at 11:36:23AM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > A case in point is asciidoc. It's used to generate HTML pages and > books. To do books it recommends other sofftware that takes about a > gigabyte on disk. Now the Docbook stuff and the LaTeX stuff are > necessary for producing

Re: [DNG] [Dng] What do you guys think about "Suggest" and "Recommends" dependency?

2016-08-01 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 01 Aug 2016 14:48:30 +0100 Rainer Weikusat wrote: > Daniel Reurich writes: > > Why are we dragging up a thread from over a year ago?? > > > > I strongly disagree, installing "Recommends" are IMHO reasonable > > for the common case, and

Re: [DNG] [Dng] What do you guys think about "Suggest" and "Recommends" dependency?

2016-08-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Aug 01, 2016 at 07:38:07AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Mon, Aug 01, 2016 at 01:55:57PM +1200, Daniel Reurich wrote: > > Why are we dragging up a thread from over a year ago?? > > > > I strongly disagree, installing "Recommends" are IMHO reasonable for the > > common case, and that

Re: [DNG] [Dng] What do you guys think about "Suggest" and "Recommends" dependency?

2016-08-01 Thread KatolaZ
On Mon, Aug 01, 2016 at 04:25:35PM +0200, Jaromil wrote: [cut] > > What is feasible to do and comes out of this thread is to nurture the > documentation about this setting and perhaps aim to add an option in > Ascii about deactivating recommends: and suggests: . OTOH, inside > derivatives like

Re: [DNG] [Dng] What do you guys think about "Suggest" and "Recommends" dependency?

2016-08-01 Thread Jaromil
On Mon, 01 Aug 2016, Rainer Weikusat wrote: > Daniel Reurich writes: > > Why are we dragging up a thread from over a year ago?? > > > > I strongly disagree, installing "Recommends" are IMHO reasonable > > for the common case, and that should stay the default except where

Re: [DNG] [Dng] What do you guys think about "Suggest" and "Recommends" dependency?

2016-08-01 Thread hellekin
On 08/01/2016 01:55 AM, Daniel Reurich wrote: > > I think it may be useful to add a question into the installer about this > (probably only in expert mode) rather than blindly change the current > setting. Where we are rebuilding packages we could certainly review and > potentially reclassify