On Mon, Sep 24, Richard Brown wrote:
I do not think it is "sane" to advocate for the use of --no-recommends in a great many cases.
As long as packager recommends everything they like, even if nobody out there ever heard from it and will not use it even if installed, people will continue to use --no-recommends. In the old times we had the problem with too many Requires. Now we have the same problem, but only with too many Recommends. Recommends should only be used, if this adds functionality >> 80% of the users are really using it. And not like > 99,9% will never use it. I asked last week during a talk our Labs people, if one from them did ever heard of a functionality, which got installed in every Minimalsystem due to a recommends since > 5 years. Nobody ever heard of this. But due to the result (dependencys) of this, a lot of them install with --no-recommends ... Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk, Distinguished Engineer, Senior Architect SLES & CaaSP SUSE LINUX GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany GF: Felix Imendoerffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nuernberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org