Hi Hilko,
The problem is that we are all expecting this distro to have reasonable
"recommends" that do not include everything but just what seems to
always be desireable.
in my not-so-humble opinion, nmap is essentially a console tool used for
security and diagnostic purposes and I think it should keep a
minimalistic approch. It's ok to suggest all theses things but It has no
sense to recommend them. At least, it has no sense on a machine that
doesn't already have a GUI.
The fact that this problem has been lasting for years, is not a good
reason to let it subsist.
It is never a good thing to add unnecessary software on a system, even
if the disk space is out of concern.
As I already said last year, adding the --no-install-recommends option
*works* but it is not ok, it's just a
workaround. and it's also a bad choice to globally reconfigure apt just
for one package that has poor recommandations.
I suggest the package to be split in something like "nmap-tiny" wich
should not include the current Install-Recommends and an "nmap-full"
that would behave like the current package.
compatibility could be preserved by adding a metapackage "nmap" that
depends on "nmap-tiny" and recommends "nmap-full"
Cheers,
Pierre
On Thu, 09 Feb 2017 21:26:42 +0100 Hilko Bengen <ben...@debian.org> wrote:
> Does the problem on your asmall routers not go away when you configure
> APT by putting
>
> APT::Install-Recommends "false";
>
