Suggests pretty much throw in the kitchen sink, and most of the time I don't
see how they relate to the parent package, so off seems like the best default.
Most of the time recommends are useless but not every time. Like with firefox
having ca-certificates as a 'recommended' package.
Maybe a de
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 gigabyte on disk. Now the D
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
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 that should stay the default except where
> > the us
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 sho
On Mon, Aug 01, 2016 at 04:25:35PM +0200, Jaromil wrote:
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>
> 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 D
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
> > the user wants to mai
On Mon, Aug 01, 2016 at 02:48:30PM +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 that should stay the default except where the u
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 the user
> wants to maintain a really minimal system,
The usually 'recommended'
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 rec
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 should stay the default except where the user
> wants to maintain a really m
Hi
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 the user
wants to maintain a really minimal system, and is prepared to have to
install everything not an ex
On 07/31/2016 02:20 PM, Paweł Cholewiński wrote:
>
> First law of software quality picture from nixcraft ..
>
Oh, they even provided a line of examples :)
BTW, I thought this suggests/recommends set to false were already agreed
upon, so +1 here. (Sorry I didn't take the time to read the whole th
W dniu 31.07.2016 o 13:47, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI pisze:
On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 00:36:22 +0200
Franco Lanza wrote:
Personally on debian i was using from date
APT:Install-Recommends "0";
APT:Install-Suggests "0";
in all my install apt.conf.
I don't like apt downloading and installing things that a
On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 00:36:22 +0200
Franco Lanza wrote:
> Personally on debian i was using from date
>
> APT:Install-Recommends "0";
> APT:Install-Suggests "0";
>
> in all my install apt.conf.
>
> I don't like apt downloading and installing things that are not required
> but just recommended or
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