Bug#388290: more info on bogus recommends

2007-01-23 Thread Per Olofsson
Joey Hess: Per Olofsson wrote: Aren't some of these recommended packages only alternatives? Are you sure they will really be installed if run --with-recommends? Probably only one from the set will be installed, for example in the case of the aspell dictionaries, it will probably pick and

Bug#388290: more info on bogus recommends

2007-01-19 Thread Joey Hess
Per Olofsson wrote: Aren't some of these recommended packages only alternatives? Are you sure they will really be installed if run --with-recommends? Probably only one from the set will be installed, for example in the case of the aspell dictionaries, it will probably pick and install a random

Bug#388290: more info on bogus recommends

2007-01-19 Thread Per Olofsson
Joey Hess: One way to see the recommands is to run aptitude --without-recommends in a fresh chroot. Some results.. I've marked packages that I feel are probably wrong to be pulled in via recommends with asterisks. aptitude --without-recommends install '~t^desktop$' Aren't some of these

Bug#388290: more info on bogus recommends

2007-01-19 Thread Joey Hess
One way to see the recommands is to run aptitude --without-recommends in a fresh chroot. Some results.. I've marked packages that I feel are probably wrong to be pulled in via recommends with asterisks. aptitude --without-recommends install '~t^desktop$' ... The following packages are RECOMMENDED