Re: apt-get question..

[Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org>]

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 09:31:15PM -0400, "Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@porchlight.ca> was heard to say:
> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:03:59PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote:
> > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 02:40:45AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote:
> > > If you want less stuff installed, then you can tell aptitude not to
> > > install 'recommends',
> > 
> > If a package is listed as a recommends and you consider it should only
> > be a suggests it is considered a bug. 
> 
> Yes but just because its recommended, things still work just fine.  I
> have all kinds of packages that don't have all the cruft that they
> recommend.  
> 
> If you have a simple one-liner that will provide you with a list of the
> packages which are recommended by installed packages but which aren't
> themselves insalled, let me know.  I'll run it and send you the results.  

    aptitude search '~Rrecommends:~i!~i'

  or to ignore recommendations that are satisfied (e.g., ORs)

    aptitude search '~RBrecommends:~i'

  Daniel