Re: aptitude full-upgrade - why does it not install Recommended packages?

[Chris <list.hurschler@gmx.de>]

On Friday 31 August 2007 18:42, Sven Joachim wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Chris <list.hurschler@gmx.de> writes:
> > sudo aptitude full-upgrade --with-recommends
> >
> > can anyone tell me why it still reports (for example):
> >
> > The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed:
> >   libjaxp1.3-java-gcj libxalan2-java-gcj
>
> The aptitude manual says:
>
>  -r, --with-recommends
>     Treat recommendations as dependencies when installing new packages
>
> Note the *new* here.  Recommendations for existing packages are _not_
> automatically installed, since aptitude presumes that you do not want
> that; after all you did not install the recommended packages in
> previous installs of your package.
>
> Of course this can be a problem since the recommendations may change
> over time.  This is probably what happened here.
>
> Regards,
> Sven

That at least explains the behavior, and makes sense I guess.  But I'd 
actually like it to really install all "recommends", for all packages I have 
installed.

Thanks!

C

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C. Hurschler