Re: Don't disable recoomends by default
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- Subject: Re: Don't disable recoomends by default
- From: Urs Thuermann <urs@isnogud.escape.de>
- Date: 05 Aug 2019 23:03:53 +0200
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- In-reply-to: <156298458618.7419.5371113023311088243@auryn.jones.dk>; from Jonas Smedegaard on Fri, 12 Jul 2019 23:23:06 -0300
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Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk> writes:
> Quoting John Crawley (2019-07-12 22:52:55)
>
> > Anyway, even if your system default is to install Recommends, apt-get
> > (and apt too?) always gets user approval before installing anything
> > beyond the package asked for. If the list looks too long (s)he can
> > always hit (N) and try again with 'apt-get install
> > --no-install-recommends <package>'
>
> ...and suppressing recommends exeptionally like that is quite sensible.
>
> Again, my strong criticism is only suppressing recommends by *default*.
Before I had suppressed recommends by default in apt.conf I *always*
had to hit 'N' and try again with --no-install-recommends, because
everytime "aptitude full-upgrade" (i.e. no new installs) wanted to
install >100 MB, often 300MB+ of packages I don't want.
urs
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