On 11/20/2010 3:12 PM, Javier Barroso wrote:
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Mark Allums<mark@allums.com> wrote:
I'm unsure whether I have ever fully grasped the whole apt system, in all it's glory, but why would a recommends ever be automatically pulled in? Wouldn't it give the admin complete control over his system to notify only, and take control away from him to automatically install anything? What is the point of Linux, anyway, if we can't control what goes on our computer. Might as well be running Windows.
You can control what is going to be installed in your debian, if you don't want recommendations to be installed automatically, simply turn off this option in apt configuration.
Why was it ever the default to do so in the first place? (Synaptic, for instance, for a very long time had a bug that reset the preference every time it was started.) The default should be to not pull in anything that is not an absolute dependency.