Hi ! As far as I can see the solution is in the Link Bas added in his previous mail.
"To turn this feature off, pass --no-install-recommends to apt or set, in your apt configuration, APT::Install-Recommends=False." regards Werner On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 9:04 AM Paolo Cavallini <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > thanks Bas for the explanation. I believe the default should be no DE - > how can be the chain of deps be broken? > Cheers. > > Il 19/05/20 08:47, Sebastiaan Couwenberg ha scritto: > > On 5/19/20 7:46 AM, Uros Preloznik wrote: > >> Can anyone explain why was this change necessary? > > > > The problem seems to be: > > > > qgis-server Depends: > > python3-qgis Depends: > > python3-qgis-common Depends: > > libqgis-customwidgets Depends: > > qttools5-dev-tools Depends: > > qt5-assistant Depends: > > libqt5webkit5 Depends: > > libqt5positioning5 Recommends: > > geoclue-2.0 Depends: > > libnotify4 Recommends: > > gnome-shell | notification-daemon > > > > And via gnome-shell you many more gnome packages installed. > > > > The change to install Recommends by default was announced in October > 2007: > > > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/08/msg00000.html > > > > This makes sense because the Debian Policy documents Recommends as: > > > > " > > The Recommends field should list packages that would be found together > > with this one in all but unusual installations. > > " > > > > > https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#binary-dependencies-depends-recommends-suggests-enhances-pre-depends > > > > Kind Regards, > > > > Bas > > > > -- > Paolo Cavallini > www.faunalia.eu - QGIS.org > training, support, development on QGIS, PostGIS and more > _______________________________________________ > QGIS-Developer mailing list > [email protected] > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
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