On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 10:09:16PM -0400, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 04:10:21PM -0500, Chris Cheney <ccheney@cheney.cx> was heard to say: > > I also don't think it is a particularly good idea for aptitude to > > default to installing suggests since it will likely bloat systems quite > > a bit installing various things such as bash-doc, gpart, parted, etc. > > aptitude doesn't depend on any of those. Do you mean when installing > other packages? If too much stuff is being pulled in from Recommends, > the package maintainers are using Recommends incorrectly. I haven't > found this to be a problem in practice. I meant since aptitude defaults to installing suggests by default, there are packages in standard and above that suggests many things that a normal user would not really care to have installed. I just installed aptitude on my system today to see how it works now (I hadn't looked it in several months) and noticed all the options under Options->Dependency Handling all the options were X'd which means selected right? I can't paste it here since aptitude seems to have mouse support so copy/paste doesn't work. > > Also, it will automatically install packages in non-free (when user has > > non-free listed) since packages in main are allowed to suggest non-free. > > aptitude installs Recommendations by default because this is what > Recommandations mean. It does not install Suggestions because > Suggestions are not meant to be installed by default. If you are > installing packages from contrib (which can Recommend and even Depend on > stuff in non-free), you should expect to get non-free stuff on your system. As stated above aptitude does apparently now default to '[X] Install Suggested packages automatically' as well. As I did not turn it on myself and I even removed ~/.aptitude several times to verify it was still enabled. Chris
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