online article: "Dapper Drake verdict: It sucks"

[Derek Broughton]

Matt Zimmerman wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 10:34:44AM -0700, Constantine Evans wrote:
>> Of course, the practice of adding packages to ubuntu-desktop which >90%
>> of users don't want only exacerbates the issue. Perhaps it is time to
>> come up with a better way of doing this?
> 
> That's what https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/recommends-support
> is about.
> 
Thank you.  I've been fighting various developers over this for more than a
year.  Developers who'll argue that a bug is not a bug because you don't
have some dependency of ubuntu-desktop installed.  I'd keep it installed if
it really used "recommends" and "depends".  

Generally, I install with aptitude - which does handle "recommends" but not
well.  If you try to remove a "recommend" it's just as likely to remove the
meta-package, too.
-- 
derek