Re: apt-get aptitude dependencies purge

[berenger.morel@neutralite.org]

Le 31.10.2013 12:12, Tom H a écrit :
> On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 10:44 AM,  <berenger.morel@neutralite.org> 
> wrote:
> > It seems that even suggested packages are not automatically removed 
> > (at
> > least with aptitude), which I think was not the same as when I 
> > started using
> > Debian.
> >
> > I just discovered this because I marked mpd as automatically 
> > installed, and
> > it was kept, while I only have packages suggesting it. I then 
> > removed it and
> > took a look at recommended packages not installed (to double check), 
> > and it
> > was definitely not here.
> >
> > I wonder if there is a way to fix that, if it is managed by 
> > aptitude/apt-get
> > or by dpkg itself...
>
> Check "apt-conf dump" for "Aptitude::Keep-Suggests". It's set to
> "false" by default.

It seems the command is apt-config dump. And there are no 
"Keep-Suggests" here:

$ apt-config dump|grep -i suggest
APT::Install-Suggests "0";