Hi Silvano,

Quoting Claudius Heine (2019-02-06 19:08:51)
> > > > ### `RRECOMMENDS`
> > > > 
> > > > This variable provides ["a list of packages that extends the usability of a package"][bb-rrecommends].
> > > > 
> > > > In ISAR there is only one way to achieve the same:
> > > > 
> > > > 1. Adding them to the [`Recommends` of the package `debian/control`][pkg-rels] file.
> > > 
> > > You can do this, but recommended or suggested packages are not installed 
> > > per default, but you could change that by overwriting the isar-apt.conf 
> > > of the isar-bootstrap-*.bb recipes.
> > 
> > That's clear to me in the case of Debian.
> > I've also assumed that the same applies to Yocto/OE
> 
> Well I haven't tried that, but I suppose that you can enable recommended
> packages just via a configuration setting. Not so here.

I looked into that. In OE recommended packages are installed per
default, but that can be globally (NO_RECOMMENDATIONS) or selectivly
(BAD_RECOMMENDATIONS) changed. In Isar they are disabled by default and
there is currently no simple switch for that.

regards,
Claudius

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