Chris Cheney wrote: > From what I have heard about aptitude it has the fun side effect of > removing packages that it thinks you didn't purposely install. After telling you it will and waiting for you to look over the list of changes, sure. I have never seen this be a problem. It will also not affect using aptitude for upgrades at all, since if it doesn't know how a package got on the system, it assumes you picked it manually. > I also don't think it is a particularly good idea for aptitude to > default to installing suggests Aptitude does not default to installing suggests AFAIK. Recommends is on by default. > Further, if recommends/suggests are on how does a user manage to only > install standard using aptitude? These only take effect when you manually select a package (or it is selected by dependencies). I took a pristine sid chroot, installed aptitude, ran it, verified it had Recommends support on, turned on Suggests support for the heck of it, and hit 'g'. It didn't install anything that was obviously not in standard or a dependency. -- see shy jo, noticing once more that inertia is a beautiful thing
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