Bug#714320: recommended / suggested

Hilko Bengen bengen at debian.org
Thu Feb 9 20:26:42 UTC 2017


Hi Vincent,

> same thing here. Most of the time I use nmap on regular servers so
> disk space is not really a problem. In a smaller setup though , like a
> router, it's a lot more annoying...

Does the problem on your asmall routers not go away when you configure
APT by putting 

  APT::Install-Recommends "false";

into apt.conf? Where disk space is precious, one should do that anyway.

> That's why like Pierre I'm wondering why those libs are recommended
> and not just suggested ?

You may want to ask the liblinear maintainer that question.

Cheers,
-Hilko



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