Re: install recommended by default? (was: Gparted will not label...)
On Sun 13 Nov 2016 at 07:01:27 -0600, David Wright wrote:
> On Sun 13 Nov 2016 at 11:16:51 (+0000), Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > On Sunday 13 November 2016 04:09:13 David Wright wrote:
> > > > I'd like to know how you found the above. Running aptitude 0.6.11 on
> > > > vtty3 here as root in 8.6 I'm unable to find anything like that from
> > > > its Options menu, or anywhere else.
> > >
> > > I type "?" which gives a list of key bindings. About 30 lines down it says
> > > Control-t: Activate or deactivate the menu.
> > etc.
> >
> > I assume you mean n-curses aptitude. I meant at the CLI.
>
> Oh, I was just answering Felix's question of Brian.
And very well answered it was, too.
Before going on to respond to the following paragraph I want to repeat
(in a slightly different way) what I said previously. A default install
sets up the installed system to download recommended packages with apt,
If aptitude is installed afterwards it also downloads recommended
packages by default. A failure of apt or aptitude to do this would be a
bug.
> For the CLI, I think you (as the appropriate user) just:
> cat /etc/apt/apt.conf /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/* ~/.aptitude/config | less
> but then I assume you need to study man 5 apt.conf to ascertain
> which options and settable, and which are defaults, etc. and
> man <command> for any defaulting options that might take precedence
> over the configuration files' options. The curses help that I described
> has already merged the options from configuration files and the
> commandline, hence the displayed Default and Value lines.
apt-config dump | grep Recommends
--
Brian.
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