Re: aptitude unintuitive behaviour (bug resolving dependencies?)

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Subject: Re: aptitude unintuitive behaviour (bug resolving dependencies?)
From: David Brodbeck <brodbd@u.washington.edu>
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:38:03 -0700
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On Aug 22, 2007, at 2:59 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:

On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 08:29:16PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:

As per Debian policy, recommends should be installed "in all butunusual
installations".


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.


I'd say that qualifies as an "unusual installation."

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