20 Sep
2011
20 Sep
'11
9:23 p.m.
On 20/09/11 18:36, Greg Madden wrote:
I am a Squeeze-KDE trinity user.
KDE-trinity does seem to have more depends than I would like to see, but as long
as they are recommends or suggestions I have control of what gets installed.
Afaik 'apt.conf' file will set up a global recommends/suggestion install policy
for your system. Some package managers are better than others in showing what is
a recommend or suggestion, i personally like 'dselect'
A DE will function fine without recommends& suggestions. Increased functionality
is a personal thing, if you want it you will know it and can install as needed.
As far as a bug I would say not necessarily, it is a decision someone made, minds
can change, suggest a different possibility.
I use apt-get, which by default installs "recommends". I know how to use
apt.conf
My point is that sudo, if wanted on a Debian system, is normally
configured by deliberate user action only and has no apparent reason to
be a "recommends" of a multimedia application.
Also what has kpackage got to do with multimedia?