Re: Preventing installation of specific virtual packages
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 14:25:27 +0800, Jason Heeris wrote:
>
>> On 19 November 2010 14:03, Alan Ianson <agianson@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Aptitude installs recommends by default. That can be turned off in
>>> "Options -> Preferences -> Dependency handling -> Install recommended
>>> packages automatically".
>>
>> I still want to install *most* recommends, just not quite *all*. So
>> turning this option off makes a lot of extra work for me :/
>
> Good question.
>
> How can be blocked the installation of a package that is not installed?
Pinning it to a negative number [1]? (I didn't try it)
Regards,
[1] http://wiki.debian.org/AptPreferences#NotesfromJoshuaRodman
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