Re: 'apt-get dist-upgrade' tries to install unneeded packages
On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 12:25:19PM +0200, Wolfgang Mader wrote:
> in deed the documentation is very clear concerning the command line options.
> What I was not able to figure out is what aptitude performs in gui mode when I
> hit U to schedule all upgradeable packages for an upgrade. I guess upgrade
> (which is equivalent to safe-upgrade) is used. Does s.o. know for sure?
aptitude has configuration options. You can configure it to install
recommend by default and even suggests by default. I think it actually
does recommends by default out of the box, although you can turn that
off.
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Len Sorensen
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