Re: Policy for adding DEPENDS

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 04:14:56PM +0000, Taylor R Campbell wrote:
> Maybe we should adopt RECOMMENDS or SUGGESTS variants of DEPENDS like
> Debian has:
> 
> - DEPENDS is mandatory and always installed.
> - RECOMMENDS is optional, but by default installed.
> - SUGGESTS is optional, and by default not installed.

It never felt that useful to me. The only advantage of RECOMMENDS and
SUGGESTS is that it is machine-readable, otherwise it is either
something that should be the default or something that should be
documented.

Joerg