[Pkg-mediawiki-devel] Bug#617561: Bug#617561: mediawiki: Mysql-server as suggested package

[Thorsten Glaser]

On Wed, 9 Mar 2011, Joao Eriberto Mota Filho wrote:

> in different machines (real or virtual). Please, consider to switch
> mysql-server from recommends to suggests to avoid the auto installation

Agreed, this… thing… should never be installed on any system.

FWIW, Recommends are still «“abused” in many packages», so
something like this in /etc/apt/apt.conf helps:

// speed and reasonability
Acquire::PDiffs "false";
Acquire::CompressionTypes::Order { "gz"; "xz"; };
// only download one file at a time
Acquire::http::Pipeline-Depth "0";
// at least as long as m68k is still troubled
debug::pkgproblemresolver "true";
// highly recommended
APT::Install-Recommends "0";
APT::Install-Suggests "0";
// should be unneeded
//APT::Get::AllowUnauthenticated "true";
// not in cowbuilder but outside, if you want
//Dir::Cache::Archives "/var/cache/pbuilder/aptcache";

bye,
//mirabilos
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