This one time, at band camp, Josip Rodin said:
> On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 02:45:34PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote:
> 
> > The package relationship described above makes it much harder
> > for a user to just run apt-get install and have things work out of the
> > box without manually specifying a second run to end up with what they
> > really want.  Do you really think that:
> > apt-get install clamav-daemon
> > apt-get install clamav-freshclam
> > apt-get remove clamav-data-bootstrap
> > 
> > is an intuitive way to arrive at what you wanted in the first place?
> 
> Uh, no, that would be:
> 
> aptitude install --without-recommends clamav-daemon clamav-freshclam
> 
> There is no second run.

That's my point - that results in no database files on disk when clamd's
postinst is run, resulting in it failing to start.  That's not really
acceptable to save a few megabytes of download on dist-upgrade.
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