On Mon, Aug 01, 2016 at 02:48:30PM +0100, Rainer Weikusat wrote: > Daniel Reurich <[email protected]> writes: > > Why are we dragging up a thread from over a year ago?? > > > > I strongly disagree, installing "Recommends" are IMHO reasonable for the > > common case, and that should stay the default except where the user > > wants to maintain a really minimal system, > > The usually 'recommended' software is the zeroconf/ 'LAN party' networking > daemon > (avahi) which is almost always useless. > > More generally spoken, neither Recommends: nor Suggests: declarations > should exist to begin with: They both represent a perfectly arbitrary > opinion of the package maintainer and it's not easily possible to > determine what they'll end up installing or for which reasons. > > People who are convinced that their opinions about 'sensible software > collections' are generally valuable should create meta-packages other > people who want to use them can then install.
I would probably agree with the meta-package strategy, the only potential problem being the proliferation of meta-packages for the same "task". I think that the suggestion to let the user decide at install-time whether they want Suggests: and Recommends: is a good one. After all, we will never be able to cover all the possible use cases anyway... My2Cents KatolaZ -- [ ~.,_ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ - GLUGCT -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ "+. katolaz [at] freaknet.org --- katolaz [at] yahoo.it ] [ @) http://kalos.mine.nu --- Devuan GNU + Linux User ] [ @@) http://maths.qmul.ac.uk/~vnicosia -- GPG: 0B5F062F ] [ (@@@) Twitter: @KatolaZ - skype: katolaz -- github: KatolaZ ] _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
