Neil Williams wrote: > And a script to implement that in every box I have to install. Again > and Again and Again and .... > > You almost forcing me into maintaining a fork of apt that restores the > current behaviour from the very start. Forking apt and putting a line in a config file seem two quite dissimilar levels of work. YMMV I guess. > No - because the default is already in place in aptitude which is WHY I > don't use aptitude. If apt goes the same way, the default configuration > of each offers no choice. > > By the time I get a chance to switch that option off, the installation > has added loads of JUNK that I do NOT want. As was noted in the initial mail, d-i already disables installation of recommends by default. debootstrap also does not install recommends by default. So no matter how you're installing, I don't see why you'd get any extra stuff added by the installation before the point where you can put the line in the config file. I'd like d-i to be able to install recommends in the future, but we can't do that until all the packages d-i installs have sane recommends, and we're not there yet (#388290). Turning recommends on by default in apt and exposing maintainers to all the bad recommends out there seems like a good way to get them fixed. -- see shy jo
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