Am 24.10.2008 um 16:07 schrieb vidd: > In Intrepid (8.10), this behavior has changed. Now recommends are > being > treated as depends. > For the majority of users, this is tolerable. > However, for some users, particularly net-device users, low-spec > servers, and minimalists, this is a heavy burden.
I share this view, there are plenty of situations where you really don't want to waste disk space and/or processor cycles. > I have a proposal that would easily remove this burden for the user > that > wishes to not install recommends by default, and yet easily enable the > install recommends for those that want it: Perhaps you've seen it already, Synaptic has such a switch in it's preferences. While this switch isn't ill-placed there, I think it would be an advantage to put this into a more global place, like the sources.list file. Then, the adjustment of this switch would go to the package sources selector accordingly. What would you think about a global switch, without making a hijack- package? MarKus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss