On Lu, 23 iul 12, 04:14:10, lina wrote: > > Thanks for your suggestions. I didn't realize aptitude would install > something else, and sometimes I treated the recommended as something > complimentary. Many times I left the laptop to install and myself run > outside to take a break. I don't watch it downloading and installing packages either, but I do have a good look at what it plans to do before confirming ;) When in doubt I look at package descriptions and even go up the dependency chain and then, on occasion, chose to not install specific Recommends. All of this is very easy to do with aptitude in interactive mode. Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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