Re: aptitude configuration question
On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 08:35:22AM -0500, Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@shellworld.net> was heard to say:
> What can I put into the .aptituderc file to adjust aptitude so the
> recommended downloads and suggested downloads get downloaded with an
> aptitude dist-upgrade?
Because of the design of apt, it's only possible [0] to install Recommends
and Suggests when a package is initially installed. The closest you
could get would be blindly install every recommendation, in which case
the program will try to re-install recommendations that you've removed
on upgrade.
Also, you almost certainly don't want to auto-install Suggests;
all sorts of junk will end up on your system if you do.
Daniel
[0] for values of "possible" that don't involve abusing the library
interface or reimplementing it.
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