On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 08:48:58PM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: <snip> > so, with that background, i am absolutely DELIGHTED to note that > apt has some additional information that it displays: it shows up > the recommended and suggested packages. > > this is INCREDIBLY helpful because by installing one package i can > go "hm, maybe i should add that, too". > > possible future improvements on this theme could include options, > including in /etc/apt/apt.conf, to _always_ add the recommended > packages to the list of packages to be installed. </snip> Maybe you should give dselect or aptitude a try. aptitude can easily be used as a command-line based program and can autommatically handle recommends and suggestsi besides a lot of other nice features. Please check Joey Hess's propaganda on aptitude's goodies, which can be found at http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200307/msg02135.html . -- ++----------------------------------------------------------------------++ || Andr� Lu�s Lopes andrelop@debian.org || || http://people.debian.org/~andrelop || || Debian-BR Project http://www.debian-br.org || || Public GPG KeyID 9D1B82F6 ||
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