Re: debian testing oddity
Turku Ting <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.window-managers.openbox |
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| Message-ID | <20131222191658.222cf1ff@min> |
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 <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 22 Dec 2013 09:46:06 -0500 > Jim Rees <[email protected]> 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. > _______________________________________________ openbox mailing list [email protected] http://icculus.org/mailman/listinfo/openbox