Re: Gparted will not label an existing FAT32 partition

[Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk>]

On Sat, 2016-11-12 at 17:19 +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Saturday 12 November 2016 15:45:28 Brian wrote:
> > The behaviour of your aptitude is presumably because you have adjusted
> > the default behaviour in some way. The new behaviour is not a bug.
> 
> No, I haven't.  This is a temporary machine, which I have not been using long.  
> I have adjusted very little.  I don't remember claiming that anything was a 
> bug.
> 
> > Also, a default Debian doesn't have aptitude but apt-get. which installs
> > recommended packages by default.
> 
> Varies with time.  Sometimes it is there and sometimes it isn't.  When 
> aptitude isn't there, I install it.  But I don't configure it.
> 
> So, after some exploring (aptitude show and aptitude search), in this 
> installation (Jessie, 8.6 - I installed Jessie 8.5) aptitude was *not* 
> automatically installed and the recommends of aptitude *were* automatically 
> installed.  I must watch for next time I have to install/not install some 
> recommends and see why and when.

I'm pretty sure installing recommends is Debian's default. I remember it
changing, and dug up this 2007 announcement of the fact...

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/08/msg00000.html

I also have as the very first step in my personal notes for installing
Debian instructions to disable that...

        Create /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20norecommends containing
        
        APT {
        	Install-Recommends "false";
        };

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Tixy