Bug#244710: Wishlist: allow --with-depends

[Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>]

merge 54461 244710
thanks

On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 01:11:18PM -0400, D. Goel wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.5.4
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Would love to see apt-get also prompt for all packages that are
> recommended (or suggested) by any of the packages that are being
> installed... perhaps doing something similar to the recursive
> dependency-lookup.  viz.  have an option to treat recommendations as
> if they were dependencies.. and have another option to treat
> suggestions as dependencies.

Another duplicate.  Please look over existing bugs first in the future.

Current versions of apt already print out recommends and suggests for
informational use.

> PS: aptitude already has a --with-recommends... somethign similar for
> apt-get would be awesome.

Why not use aptitude?

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 - mdz