[openbox] debian testing oddity

[General]

On Sat, 21 Dec 2013 21:35:48 -0500
Jim Rees <rees at umich.edu> wrote:

> General wrote:
> 
>   The latest openbox upgrade (from 3.5.2-4 to 3.5.2-5) want's to pull in the
>   whole of gnome, GDM and pulse audio as dependencies!
> 
> I don't run debian any more but as I recall you can find out why these are
> being pulled in:
> 
> apt-get install apt-rdepends
> apt-rdepends openbox
> 
> The debian package changelog[1] says that openbox-gnome-session and
> openbox-kde-session are now "recommended" dependencies, so maybe that's
> it. I know that at some point ubuntu started installing recommended
> dependencies by default, don't know about debian. I used to always turn this
> off by creating the file /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/06norecommends:
> 
> APT
> {
>         Install-Recommends "false";
>         Install-Suggests "false";
> }
> 
> Or you can use the apt-get command line option --no-install-recommends when
> you install openbox.
> 
> 1. http://ftp-master.metadata.debian.org/changelogs//main/o/openbox/openbox_3.5.2-5_changelog

Thank you very much. That's very helpful. I wasn't aware of 'recommends'.
Sheesh! and I thought I knew what i was doing :)

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