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Re: aptitude unintuitive behaviour (bug resolving dependencies?)



On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 10:13:32AM +0200, Klaas Gadeyne wrote:

> Is this intented behaviour and did I miss something here?

I'm guessing it's because aptitude installs recommended packages by 
default. You could start aptitude in interactive mode and after pressing 
the first 'g' you can have a look at the chain of 
recommends/dependencies.

As per Debian policy, recommends should be installed "in all but unusual 
installations". If you think some recommends shouldn't be there please 
report this as a (minor or whishlist) bug, because starting 1.Oct 
recommends will be switched on in apt too.

Regards,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)

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