On 22/01/16 02:57, Didier Kryn wrote:
> Le 21/01/2016 12:33, Hendrik Boom a écrit :

>> Might it alleviate some of the above complaints?
>>
> I always use apt-get install --no-install-recommends, or "default upgrade" in
> Synaptic. And I don't look at the recommended packages :-)
>
> This "recommends" feature has become a kind of bin for packages the maintainers
> would like desperately to "require" for obscure reasons, but they fail to find a
> valid one.

But some more polite packages do use it properly ... for things that are not
actually dependencies, but that you probably want, and may well miss, if you use
the package in an average kind of way. It is worth a quick look during the
apt-get process.

Simon