Bug#491840: moving tomboy to Recommends doesn't archieve the desired effect

[Josselin Mouette]

Le mardi 22 juillet 2008 à 13:06 +0200, Robert Millan a écrit :
> Please note that moving packages to Recommends doesn't exclude them from the
> default install anymore, since APT defaults to including Recommends starting
> with lenny.
> 
> I'm aware that tasksel uses --no-install-recommends, which would make one
> think Recommends aren't dragged in, but this is in fact not true (they will
> be dragged in as soon as the packages are upgraded).

Erm, I don’t think so. AFAIK packages which are already recommended by
the installed version are not installed when the package is upgraded.

> Please could you move tomboy (and maybe others) to Suggests?

I’d really like to avoid this solution. Tomboy is part of the official
GNOME release and is a very useful application.

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