Re: Preventing installation of specific virtual packages
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 10:22 PM, Mark Allums <mark@allums.com> wrote:
> 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.
Was a decission from debian developpers as you can see in [1] [2].
Your answer may be in that thread
Regards,
[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/08/msg00000.html
[2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2007/08/msg00043.html
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