On Sunday 2023-05-28 08:01, Eric Schirra wrote:
On 5/25/23 06:30, Matěj Cepl wrote:
See https://bugzilla.suse.com/1211446 … it seems to me that this attitude, that everybody switch off Recommends, because they bring too much garbage, so it is all right that packages bring too much garbage, is rather evil.
The general response is we know there are a number of places where switching off recommends will break things, particularly in the desktop patterns.
E.g. evince-plugin-pdfdocument. But it's fine to be recommended rather than required. wpg and pcx support in msword are also optional, because when was the last time you exercised wpg/pcx functionality? (It depends on the user!)
I think a programme should be able to do everything it can right from the start after installation. How is a user supposed to find out which additional package is needed?
That is the point; if you are such a user, you choose "recommended"/"typical", not --no-recommends/"custom". The concept is at least as old as '95: https://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/img_59de74218c289.png