Bug#783177: wheezy->jessie: Pulls in quite some additional packages on apt-get dist-upgrade like libgl1-mesa-dri

[Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 02:30:31PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> Package: upgrade-reports
> Severity: normal
> 
> apt-get upgrade worked fine on the box, but on apt-get dist-upgrade I see:
> 
> Okay, this seems to be circumventable by using --no-install-recommends:

Part of the problem is that apt-get installs all recommended packages transitively.
(i.e. it also install Recommends of Recommends, etc.)

Maybe an option to only install direct Recommends could be useful.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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