Re: 'apt-get dist-upgrade' tries to install unneeded packages

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) writes:

> 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.

By default it uses the apt configuration and that defaults to
installing recommends.

MfG
        Goswin