On Mon, Aug 01, 2016 at 02:48:30PM +0100, Rainer Weikusat wrote:
> Daniel Reurich <daniel@???> 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

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