[openbox] debian testing oddity

[Turku Ting]

there's been a lot of discussion about this in various forums (crunchbanhg...)

who's actually creating install-recommends? is it only for apt, or other ditros also?

well if you don't check how far a recommend goes down the dependency tree, it should be disabled by default imo.



On Sun, 22 Dec 2013 15:22:57 +0000
General <general at musically.me.uk> wrote:

> On Sun, 22 Dec 2013 09:46:06 -0500
> Jim Rees <rees at umich.edu> wrote:
> 
> > General wrote:
> > 
> >   Thank you very much. That's very helpful. I wasn't aware of 'recommends'.
> >   Sheesh! and I thought I knew what i was doing :)
> > 
> > So was that the problem? I don't think debian should be adding gnome-session
> > to the recommended dependencies for openbox. Many of us run openbox because
> > we don't want all the bloat of the popular desktops, so sucking in all of
> > gnome seems rude.
> 
> Indeed it was. Incidentally that script will no longer work as there is now an
> option in  synaptic itself pre-checked to treat recommends as dependencies -
> I've no idea when that was added.
> 
> I have another machine with a similar setup, and by clearing this, was able to
> upgrade it without the same problems.
> 
> I agree that even recommending gnome is daft (let alone gnome3), and to
> effectively completely reconfigure the desktop without warning is a big NO!
> 
> Thanks again.
> 
> Will.
>