Re: apt-get and some crypto thing

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From: Adeodato =?utf-8?B?U2ltw7M=?=
Subject: Re: apt-get and some crypto thing
Date: 17:08 on 05 Jun 2006
* Rafael Garcia-Suarez [Mon, 05 Jun 2006 14:02:59 +0200]:

> Well, but so, why apt didn't upgrade itself, pulling it that new
> dependency as a side-effect? Some other hateful behaviour?

Because you're supposed to install recommended packages unless you explicitly
know you don't want them. apt recommends debian-archive-keyring, and
it's not a hard dependency to avoid the major hate that would be shoving
gnupg down the throat of every Debian user on earth.

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