Re: Opt out style recommends
Le 08/04/2016 10:10, Neil Williams a écrit :
> On Fri, 8 Apr 2016 09:58:04 +0200
> Adrien CLERC <adrien@antipoul.fr> wrote:
>
>> Le 08/04/2016 05:49, Harlan Lieberman-Berg a écrit :
>>> [1]: I say default here, but really, systems which turn off
>>> installing things which are Recommended are almost unusuable; I
>>> know for a while it was the policy of #debian to just turn away
>>> people who had done that because the system would be in such a
>>> strange state. Sincerely,
>> While I think installing recommended packages by default is a good
>> choice, disabling it is also a really good option on servers.
>> Installing every recommended packages is sometimes the best way to
>> bloat your system.
>>
>> It makes me think I'd love a system where Apt::Install-Recommends
>> could be set to "ask" and let apt ask me if I want the recommended
>> packages for my current request.
> apt already shows you which packages are to be brought in as Recommends
> on every invocation and unless you use the -y option you get the
> option to quit. You can already choose to quit and call apt with the
> --no-install-recommends option for this specific invocation of apt.
>
This involves a lot of keypresses, and I'm incredibly lazy ;)
I was just wondering if apt could be more interactive, or if it is a
design choice not to ask too many questions.
Adrien
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