Re: Installation of Recommends by default on October 1st
On Thu, 2 Aug 2007 15:51:50 +0200, Magnus Holmgren <holmgren@lysator.liu.se> said:
> On Thursday 02 August 2007 12:01, Julien BLACHE wrote:
>> I'd use aptitude if I wanted Recommends installed by default. I'm
>> using apt-get precisely because it's not doing this kind of stupid
>> things.
> I use aptitude and I don't want Recommends to be installed by
> default. This is not Windows. Here you can configure your software the
> way you want it.
,----[ Manual page aptitude(8) ]
| -R, --without-recommends
| Do not treat recommendations as dependencies when installing new
| packages (this overrides settings in /etc/apt/apt.conf and
| ~/.aptitude/config). Packages previously installed due to
| recommendations will not be removed.
|
| This corresponds to the pair of configuration options
| Aptitude::Recommends-Important and Aptitude::Keep-Recommends.
`----
So, there you go. I set Aptitude::Recommends-Important to false,
but retain Aptitude::Keep-Recommends as true. (UI do draw the line at
making Aptitude::Keep-Suggests true.
manoj
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