Bug 9051 - Optional dependencies should be recommended not required by deb
Summary: Optional dependencies should be recommended not required by deb
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Koha
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Packaging (show other bugs)
Version: Main
Hardware: All All
: P5 - low normal (vote)
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Reported: 2012-11-10 15:16 UTC by Jared Camins-Esakov
Modified: 2014-12-07 20:02 UTC (History)
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Description Jared Camins-Esakov 2012-11-10 15:16:05 UTC

    
Comment 1 Jared Camins-Esakov 2012-11-10 19:02:29 UTC
Actually, I withdraw this bug. After spending all day researching this, I have determined that if we use Recommends, dpkg will not provide any facility for telling the user about recommended packages. This seems like a much worse situation than extra packages getting installed, so I am marking the bug as WONTFIX.
Comment 2 Robin Sheat 2012-11-11 00:39:03 UTC
That's not quite true. The splits I want to make are:
* Depends
* Build-depends
* Recommends or suggests

Typically, recommends are pulled in and suggests aren't. This is configurable (usually I turn on no-recommends on servers.) apt-get/aptitude will do whatever the configuration says, also it means that if you remove one of these, it doesn't mark the primary package as broken.