builddep should be installed with --no-recommends

[Thomi Richards]

When installing a builddep with the builddeps phase, mojo should specify '--no-recommends' to apt. Otherwise, when installing 'bzr' as a build-dep, we end up installing all sorts of stuff, including (for example) gnome-keyring.

[Thomi Richards (thomir-deactivatedaccount)]

Thinking about this some more...

I guess changing this now will likely break several existing mojo specs.
That's clearly not a good idea. Perhaps we can add an option to the
builddeps phase that controls whether or not --no-recommends is passed to
apt? It could even be documented as a sensible default for new specs...
something like:

builddeps packages=bzr,make,python-yaml install_recommends=no

Thougths?

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[Tom Haddon (mthaddon)]

I don't think it's a bad idea. I think people can fix up specs pretty easily, and it's better to know what specific packages you need rather than relying on things being pulled in due to recommended packages being also installed.