20 Sep
2011
20 Sep
'11
5:36 p.m.
On Tuesday 20 September 2011 01:31:35 am David Hare wrote:
I noticed when reinstalling kaffeine-trinity that also
installed as
"recommends" were :
kdesudo-trinity, kpackage-trinity
I do not use or want either of those on my Debian
system and can't see
the reason for this.
Although it is not a problem for me to purge them, this could be seen by
some Debian users as another example of enforced use of Ubuntu-style
sudo on Squeeze/TDE
It is not easy to work out whether installing
(especially multiple
packages) with "no-recommends" is a good thing or not; that sometimes
means reduced functionality.
My concern is, there are probably other TDE packages which behave
similarly. I don't know if this counts as a bug or is for some reason
intentional.
Any comments?
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.
--
Peace,
Greg