Re: aptitude forces full-upgrade

["Mumia W.." <paduille.4061.mumia.w+nospam@earthlink.net>]

Javier Barroso <javibarroso@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 01/02/2010 04:49 PM, Mumia W.. wrote:
> > I just upgraded Squeeze, but I had to use apt-get rather than aptitude 
> > because aptitude wanted to force me to install a lot of new programs (do 
> >  a full-upgrade).
> > [...]
> I'm not sure, but maybe aptitude wants to install recommends. If you
> run "aptitude -s -R safe-upgrade", it want to install all new stuff ?

Thanks. I have recommends disabled:

> Saratoga:apt.conf.d$ 
> Saratoga:apt.conf.d$ cat * | grep Recommends
> Aptitude::Recommends-Important "false";
> Saratoga:apt.conf.d$ 
> Saratoga:apt.conf.d$ apt-config dump | egrep '(Recommends|Suggests)'
> APT::Install-Recommends "false";
> APT::Install-Suggests "0";
> Saratoga:apt.conf.d$ 
> Saratoga:apt.conf.d$