Bug#305945: gnome-media: Please reopen

Manuel Bilderbeek manuel at msxnet.org
Mon Feb 20 20:55:33 UTC 2006


Hi,

Loïc Minier wrote:
>  I think you misunderstood the importance of Recommends:
>         The Recommends field should list packages that would be found
>         together with this one in all but unusual installations.

Aha..! Well, I never read what Recommends means, I have just trusted 
apt-get as usual. (I trusted that it would give me any dependency I need 
to run the packages I wanted to install.)

>  I filed bugs against dselect and synaptic already because they didn't
>  honor recommends in the default configuration on installs or upgrades.

How can I configure it to install Recommends: packages automatically?

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