Re: Packages temporarily disappearing from Testing/Lenny
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On 04/14/08 12:06, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2008-04-14 18:32 +0200, Ron Johnson wrote:
>
>> On 04/14/08 10:56, Sven Joachim wrote:
>>> You know that all these packages are just recommendations and you do not
>>> need to install all (not even any) of them?
>> Maybe there's an ambiguity in what "*will* be installed" means?
>
> Probably not; if you'd use aptitude rather than apt-get, you could use
> the "--without-recommends" commandline option or use the TUI to sort out
> which of the recommended packages you want and which not (the latter is
> what I did). But even with apt-get, you can remove the recommended
> packages at any time, that's the difference between dependencies and
> recommendations, after all.
Since when does apt-get automatically pull in recommended packages?
Quite frequently I see it recommend packages, but not automatically
pull them in.
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
We want... a Shrubbery!!
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