On Sat 09 Dec 2017 at 18:36:46 -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2017-12-09 at 09:10, Brian wrote: > > > The Terms and Conditions of installing a Debian package include (as > > I'm sure you are aware) accepting the Depends: and Recomends: lines. > > What is in these lines can be accepted or rejected and, in the case > > of Recommends:, adjusted to suit your needs. Installing the package > > necessarily involves making an explicit request for other packages. > > No, it doesn't. That's the exact distinction between "explicit" and > "implicit".
Indeed. I used Joes's original word because I wasn't in a nit-picking mood. -- Brian.
