Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 2 Jan 1997 21:12:52 +0000 Received: (qmail 1360 invoked from network); 2 Jan 1997 21:12:49 -0000 Received: from kite.preferred.com (HELO kite.ml.org) (root@205.138.52.109) by master.debian.org with SMTP; 2 Jan 1997 21:12:46 -0000 Received: by kite.ml.org id m0vfuQ1-000CneC (Debian Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #2); Thu, 2 Jan 1997 16:11:17 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 16:11:17 -0500 (EST) From: joey@kite.ml.org (Joey Hess) To: submit@bugs.debian.org Subject: dpkg: dselect's treatment of Recommends Package: dpkg Version: 1.4.0.5 There has seemed to be agreement on debian-devel in the past that dselect should treat "recommends" more like "suggests" and less like "depends". Currently, if you have a package that is recommended by another package, and you don't want to install the recommended package, dselect will flag the recommended package for installation each time you go to Select packages. This has lead to lots of ugly hacks like making a local package that is empty and provides the reccommended package. I suggest that dselect be changed to handle recommends more like it currently handles suggests.