Hi,
Neal Lippman wrote:
> I did in install last pm of a package which "recommends" other packages,
> which it turned out I needed in order to make things work. However,
Is that package needed to make a feature work or to make the whole
program actually work? In the latter case this should be a Depends:...
> apt-get install <package> did not automagically install the recommended
> packages (it did get required dependencies) and I spent quite a while
> before I figured that out.
Right.
> How do you cause apt-get to at least ask you about installing
> recommended, or suggested, package dependencies?
I am not sure you could...; sid's apt prints them out so you know
them...
Grüße/Regards,
René
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