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Why doesn't aptitude warn on removing recommended packages?



Dear List,

Today I busted my dm-crypted Debian Testing installation by removing
busybox and upgrading the kernel, which led to corrupted initramfs
that doesn't include busybox [1].

The problem I want to say is that busybox is `recommended' by
initramfs-tools, but when I tried to remove it aptitude didn't issue a
single warning. I'm not sure whether this is a good behavior, but at
least I want to configure my aptitude so that it warns me when I'm
trying to remove a recommended package. Any option is there to achieve
this?

Thank you in advance.

(I'm not subscribing to this list, please keep me in the loop when you
reply, thanks!)

Ref:
[1] cryptsetup needs busybox to build a correct initramfs
    http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=582914

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Li, Yan


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