Am 27. Mai 2023 20:53:16 MESZ schrieb Simon Lees <sflees@suse.de>:
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.
Any comments on it?
The general response is we know there are a number of places where switching off recommends will break things, particularly in the desktop patterns. If someone finds an issue we will try our best to fix it, but sometimes peoples opinions on what is required for a functioning system differ in which cases we usually use maintainer discretion.
I find this discussion ludicrous. People are fighting over a few megabytes. At the same time, however, the focus is on Alp/MicroOS/flatpack, where several gigabytes are installed twice and three times and thus unnecessarily. Secondly, 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? Or have I misunderstood something? Regards Eric