2016-10-25 1:43 GMT+02:00 Daniel Lo Nigro <li...@dan.cx>: > Apart from that, is there a good reason to use Recommend instead of Depend >> ? > > > I'm not sure. wget and libcurl3-gnutls both "Recommend" rather than > "Depend" on ca-certificates. I think it's because wget still mostly works > without it, it's just TLS/SSL connections that fail. Node.js behaves the > same way, all of Node.js works without ca-certificates except for TLS > connections. > > I'm leaning toward Depend, because upstream bundles certificates (and the nodejs debian package patches upstream to use ca-certificates instead), users expect the usual certificates independently of how they installed nodejs.
Jérémy