apt with --install-recommends support

[Brandon Holtsclaw]

> We would like to make "install-recommends" the default soon. But
> before that we need to review the current recommends to see if all are
> justified or if some should rather be "Suggests" (which will not be
> installed by default). The current version of apt contains a
> "--fix-policy" option that will check what packages are "recommended"
> by other installed packages but not installed. I attached the output

Do we realy want to make this transition mid-stride in edgy ? 
>
> for my pretty standard edgy test-system. As you can see the list is
> pretty long and quite a few packages will need a cleanup of their
> recommends. The extend of the cleanup required may well be so big that
> the activation of this option needs to be postponed - this needs to be
> discussed.
>
I have a feeling this would end up taking most of the volenteers time just 
auditing and fixing up the recomends for universe alone , I dont have to 
remind anyhow how many thousands of packages are in the repos.

Also not knowing much about this the planning that went behind this decision 
would this not put a crimp in auto syncing from debian at the begining of 
release cycles unless debian adopted this method upstream also AND agreed to 
{all,most} our reomends audit sugestions ? or would this just add many more 
hundreds ( thousands ? ) of merges to an already long list ?

Dont get me wrong this sounds like it could be a great 
{alternative,replacement} to the heavy use of meta-packages in the long run, 
these are just a bit of a concern to me atm.

-- 
Brandon Holtsclaw
imbrandon at kubuntu.org
http://launchpad.net/people/imbrandon
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