Bug#789256: cmus: Pulls in unwanted and potentially dangerous DECnet packages through libroar2

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting John Paul Adrian Glaubitz (2015-06-20 12:22:09)
> On 06/20/2015 05:45 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>> Please elaborate what in cmus is "broken by default" - seems this 
>> whole "issue" of yours stems from installing an additional package 
>> only _suggested_ by cmus.
>
> It's not a Suggests, it's a Recommends:
>
> glaubitz at ikarus:~$ apt-cache depends cmus |grep roar
>   Recommends: libroar2
> glaubitz at ikarus:~$
> 
> and apt is - by default - configured to install Recommends.
> 
> Installing cmus on a newly installed system will therefore install 
> libdnet as a transitive dependency

Agreed cmus pulls in the _library_ for dnet.


> and will result in cmus getting stuck directly after start as I have 
> reported earlier in the first message in this bug report [1].

The first message for this bugreport talks about --with-suggests.

Can you please clarify how cmus causes beakage rather than the use of 
--with-suggests.

 - Jonas

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