Re: aptitude unintuitive behaviour (bug resolving dependencies?)
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 08:29:16PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> 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.
You can also select the desired behaviour in the options menu.
>
> 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.
>
My base plus carefully selected packages PII X client currently
takes 653 MB. If I have to pull in all the damn recommends too then
Etch won't fit on the drive.
Doug.
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