4 Feb
2018
4 Feb
'18
7:08 p.m.
If Linux Mint chooses not to install recommended dependencies (seriously?), it's their decision and therefore their problem. Someone using Linux Mint should report it as a bug with them.
To quote the documentation of the Debian package format which is also used by Mint:
The Recommends field should list packages that would be found
together with this [package] in all but unusual installations. https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/#binary-dependencies-depends-recomm...
Moving it to "Depends" would be wrong, as inkscape still mostly works without numpy:
["Depends"] declares an absolute dependency.
Of course, printing a sensible warning for missing python packages is always a good idea.
Regards,
Max