[Mageia-dev] installing minimal is not really that minimal

Thu Mar 22 12:49:22 CET 2012

On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Thierry Vignaud
+<thierry.vignaud at gmail.com> wrote:
+> On 22 March 2012 09:31, You-Cheng Hsieh <yochenhsieh at gmail.com> wrote:
+>
+> It's easy to add a suggest ("hey it'll just make the user experience better"),
+> but eventually the suggested package can start a cycles that will pull
+> quite a lot more packages.
+
+This is a lame excuse, really.
+What you are actually saying is that rpmdrake sucks because it doesn't
+distinguish between required and suggested packages and doesn't let
+the user choose.
+
+The topic started off with a user using minimal installation without
+suggested packages - just to remind you of that.
+
+> [...]
+> And none of it (but python) has actually to do with systemd.
+> It was just that required library actually suggest or requires another one
+> which also suggested or required ...
+
+Don't mix up suggests with requires in this matter please.
+
+> Everyone should be concerned about that.
+
+Yes, but don't force crippling of package's interdependencies/suggests
+because one part of the tooling ignores the difference between
+requires and suggests.
+
+> I think that some of those "comfort" suggests should be moved
+> from some low level library or tool package to task-<desktop>
+> packages.
+
+I completely disagree.
+
+Give the user control of the suggested packages, highlight stuff that
+is suggested and what is required.
+
+ciao
+Christian
+