Universe Recommends for packages in main

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 06:18:59PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Matt Zimmerman [2008-07-06 14:54 +0100]:
> > Java - I don't know which "lots" depend on it, but it managed to be excluded
> > from the CD in 8.04 without testers noticing.  It would be useful to know
> > exactly what uses it, so that we can agree on an appropriate package
> > relationship.
> 
> I think this is generally a good attitude towards packages pulled in
> by Recommends:. We managed without them so far, so I feel most
> of them are not justified for CD inclusion. 

I'm not entirely convinced...it's certainly possible that we don't know what
we've been missing. :-)

Is there any provision in germinate for "negative" seeding?  If something is
considered correct as a Recommends, but we want to force it off of the CD,
can we do that without changing the package?

-- 
 - mdz