Re: Woody: Making apt-get follow recommendations & suggestions
On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 12:35:23PM +0200, Holger Rauch wrote:
> When installing a kernel-source-<version> package on a newly installed
> system using apt-get, I realized that only dependencies are taken into
> account, but not recommendations and/or suggestions. Especially when
> installing a kernel-source package, however, it would be nice to get
> everything required for compiling a kernel at once (meaning without the
> need to look for additional packages).
>
> So, my question is: How can I make apt-get follow recommendations and/or
> suggestions? If this is not possible, is using aptitude a possible
> solution?
apt-get was never designed for this sort of thing - it's not a full
frontend. I understand aptitude does indeed take recommendations and
suggestions into account.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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