Bug#40181: based on policy, this is a bug
On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, Joey Hess wrote:
> 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.)
apt 0.5.5 was uploaded last saturday, but is stuck in NEW.
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