Suggests pretty much throw in the kitchen sink, and most of the time I don't see how they relate to the parent package, so off seems like the best default.

Most of the time recommends are useless but not every time. Like with firefox having ca-certificates as a 'recommended' package.

Maybe a debconf menu during apt installation?

Cheers,

chillfan

> On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 00:36:22 +0200
> Franco Lanza <nextime@???> wrote:
>
>> Personally on debian i was using from date
>>
>> APT:Install-Recommends "0";
>> APT:Install-Suggests "0";
>>
>> in all my install apt.conf.
>>
>> I don't like apt downloading and installing things that are not required
>> but just recommended or suggested, expecially in server or embedded
>> envs, but also on my desktop.
>>
>> What do you think if we make this the default in devuan?
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