** Description changed: - exFAT is, to my knowledge, the only file format supporting files greater - than 4GB which can be read, written, and formatted with the standard GUI - tools of both Windows and macOS. Though not a free standard, it is - otherwise ideal for external storage such as USB sticks which might be - used to exchange files among these different systems. + exFAT is, to my knowledge, the only file system format supporting files + greater than 4GB which can be read, written, and formatted with the + standard GUI tools of both Windows and macOS. Though not a free + standard, it is otherwise ideal for external storage such as USB sticks + which might be used to exchange files among these different systems. Users are somewhat likely to encounter an exFAT-formatted drive at some point, and the exfat-fuse package is quite small. It is always frustrating to encounter a filesystem which cannot be read, and a user who has already consented to unfree software would benefit from having exFAT support pre-installed, saving their time in researching the problem, downloading, and installing the package. A user who never needs this package, but who has installed ubuntu-restricted-extras package, will almost certainly not notice or object to an extra 80kB on their system. For these reasons, I would like to request that the exfat-fuse package be added as a recommended package by the ubuntu-restricted-extras package.
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