Cardenas wrote: > it makes perfect sense to have a --recommends flag. joey@dragon:~>aptitude --help |grep -A1 recommends --with(out)-recommends, --with(out)-suggests Specify whether or not to treat recommends (suggests) as strong dependencies I doubt that apt-get will ever get this, but apt-get is just one example frontend to apt, and aptitiude can already almost completly replace it. There is earlier discussion in this bug report about the difficulty of presenting recommends/suggests info to the user in a simple interface like apt's. aptitude avoids this by letting the user jump into a full gui interface from the simple interface. What I'd like to see if for aptitude to get the few remaining command line switches that apt-get has and it does not, and then for apt-get to just turn into a symlink to aptitude.. (Of course what I would really like to see is an apt built with the new c++ libs in unstable so aptitude could stop having a dozen grave bugs.) -- see shy jo
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