On Tue September 20 2011, David Hare <David Hare <davidahare@gmail.com>> wrote:

> 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?

This is REALLY a stretch, but perhaps someone thought that installing a multimedia package would lead to wanting to fiddle with the audio and video drivers on the machine, and that was a good reason to recommend KDE-specific tools for that??

Hey, Greg,

I've never used dselect, and some of the Lenny doc seemed to discourage its use. I'm curious: What you you like about it?

Thanks-

Douglas

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