Re: Interactive package management via aptitude
> > > Aptitude installs all recommended packages by default which was rather
> > > annoying until I found that in the options menu as I ran out of space a
> > > couple of times.
> >
> > as does apt-get.
>
> I'm fairly sure synaptic doesn't select recommended by default, however
> the synaptic package itself is a package where installing recommended
> packages by default may be a good idea (Adds useful repo management
> functionality like add cdrom (which isn't obvious from the dependency
> descriptions) without pulling in the world).
My bad it is, I just use a machine where I can't remember changing that
in years and boy am I glad.
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