Re: Is it a bug: huge dependency problems of php5 and ikiwiki

[Kumar Appaiah <a.kumar@alumni.iitm.ac.in>]

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 08:05:24PM +0200, Xan wrote:
>
>> In Debian stable "lenny" apt automatically installs recommended
>> packages. If you want to select packages manually you can do so using
>> the aptitude front-end or by using "apt --no-install-recommends".
>
> Wow!!. Why that? I previous use debian and apt only install needed  
> packages, not recommended. Can I set --no-install-recommends by default?

Add this line to /etc/apt/apt.conf:

APT::Install-Recommends "0";

HTH.

Kumar