On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 04:30:59PM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 01:02:05PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > > And have you filed bug reports on these packages when you've encountered > > this? The only way these are going to be addressed is if users who find > > such issues report them. > > No, because I didn't think they were bugs -- I thought that > when a package I was installing recommended another that it meant I > should consider whether I wanted to use these other packages too. > Often the answer was "no". Sometimes it was "yes" and I appreciated > the recommendation. And aptitude didn't automatically install them > without first giving me a chance to say "yes". So this seems like a > change in the meaning of "recommends" to me, although I admit it may > just be an end to my misunderstanding.
I wonder if there's any practical way to catch user misunderstanding like this so they can be fixed. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
