On Tue, 2019-06-04 at 19:06 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
* Adam Williamson:
> As a side note, if your goal is "to maintain a minimal system
> installation", perhaps what you might want is to be able to configure
> dnf to simply *never* install weak (Recommends) or very weak (Suggests)
> dependencies. IIRC, this is configurable on SUSE - you can set this as
> permanent package manager configuration. I'm not sure if it is in DNF,
> but if not, perhaps it could be?
My experience with Debian is that their --no-install-recommends feature
is pretty aggressive, so you often end up manually chasing dependencies
to get the required feature set if you disable the default of installing
weak dependencies. So it's usually more convenient to install them
automatically, and the remove select parts you don't want. YMMV, of
course.
Well, I mean, the 'aggression' or otherwise is determined by the
*packages*, not the package manager, surely? It's up to the individual
packager where they draw the line between a Requires: and a
Recommends:, so long as they abide by distro policy, which has a little
to say about this but not a lot.
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