Re: Installation of Recommends by default on October 1st
On Wed August 8 2007 10:01:40 am Daniel Burrows wrote:
> Just to clarify, aptitude didn't "come up" with anything. This was
> the standard behavior in Debian at the time (dselect was far more
> draconian about forcing you to install recommended packages), and one
> of the top complaints I got was that aptitude mishandled Recommends
> by not installing them!
dselect doesn't force you to install recommended packages; for as long
as I can remember (since Bo) it has given you a list with the
recommends preselected, and a simple keypress is all that is needed to
decline them.
- Bruce
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