On 9/22/19 10:08 PM, Roman Haefeli wrote:
doing this will most likely give you a system that lacks all the functionality you expect.
Interesting,*you* say that. 'puredata' recommends 'gem'. I certainly do not expect to get Gem when installing Pure Data. In all cases I remember, I was rather annoyed by stuff that got installed unexpectedly.
actually the fact that the "puredata" package recommends "gem" predates my involvement in the Debian package and i just never came around to demoting it to a mere "suggests" (which is normally not automatically installed).
if it bothers you, please file a bug against the puredata Debian package.
So often, though, it appeared to me that 'recommends' somewhat followed the taste of the maintainer and was not concise.
The Debian policy is pretty clear about what qualifies as a "Recommends" [1]. However, i think that historically the term was less well defined and was mostly used as what nowadays would be a "Suggests".
gsadmr IOhannes