Re: [LAU] Debian DAW experiences

On Mon, 2014-09-01 at 15:46 -0700, David Christensen wrote: "No. Recommends are specifically packages that should be installed by default. We also have Suggests for packages that should not be installed by default, but may be useful." - from the above link ;) Btw. using workarounds until bugs are fixed and editing configs, such as apt.conf isn't unusual for Linux. Once you might install synaptic, without recommended/suggested packages and then you might lament about missing features ;). In the future you should expect to experience real unpleasant things, e.g. hard dependencies that should be optional dependencies, but upstream decided to enforce their worldview, even if it could make your user space unusable or damage your hardware.