Re: recommended way disable recommends using apt

[Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk>]

On Tue, 23 Aug 2022, jindam, vani wrote:

> hello debian users,
>
> i want to install again debian, i dont
> want to install recommended packages
> and i checked (ex: $ apt show libreoffice)
> my list of packages to be installed &
> i see no problem. i always use $ sudo apt to
> install packages.
>
> my plan:
> (1) install debian base
> (2) disable recommend packages
> (3) install packages one by one
>
> issue (which one is correct?) on /etc/apt/apt.conf:
> (1) APT::Install-Recommends "false";
> APT::Install-Suggests "false";
> (2) APT::Install-Suggests "0";
> APT::Install-Recommends "0";

I have:
tim@einstein(5):~$ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99-no-recommends
APT
{
  Install-Recommends "false";
}