Re: aptitude recommends allowance at command line only.

[Arno Schuring <aelschuring@hotmail.com>]

Johan Grönqvist (johan.gronqvist@gmail.com on 2011-08-02 08:20 +0200):
>  From 
> <http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/projects/aptitude/doc/en/rn01re01.html> 
> there seems to be an option:
> 
> -r, --with-recommends
> 
>      Treat recommendations as dependencies when installing new
> packages (this overrides settings in /etc/apt/apt.conf and
> ~/.aptitude/config).

Adding to that:
 -R, --without-recommends

They are mentioned in man aptitude, though :)

The apt config line should be
APT::Install-Recommends "true|false";


Regards,
Arno