On 29/11/18 2:01 AM, Michael Stone wrote: > On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 12:45:49PM +0100, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 11:34:54AM +0000, David Griffith wrote: >>> I just noticed an odd behavior of APT when I tried installing >>> inform6-compiler and inform6-library. I used to think that >>> recommended packages would be mentioned at installation, but >>> wouldn't be added unless you explicitly asked for them. So, I tried >>> to install the compiler and library on a headless machine and APT >>> decided that it had to also install a zcode interpreter and picked >>> one that wanted to pull in all sorts of graphical libraries. Is >>> that really necessary? >> >> By default, recommended packages are installed (suggested packages >> aren't; this is different from "recommended"). You can change that >> default. For example, I have, in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/95no-recommends: >> >> APT::Install-Recommends no; > > Or use aptitude, and make decisions interactively about what gets > installed. Presumably you're talking about the full-screen interactive interface to aptitude - aptitude can otherwise be just as non-interactive as the others. Richard
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