Re: Installation of Recommends by default on October 1st

[Roland Stigge <stigge@antcom.de>]

Hi,

Michael Vogt wrote:
> Because it only affects new package installs on your currently
> installed packages nothing changes. If you want to see what would
> change if you had a system with --install-recommends please run:
> 
> # apt-get install --fix-policy --install-recommends 

Is this feature transitive (i.e., installing A causes installing C when
A recommends B and B recommends C), and can this in turn be turned on/off?

Thanks,

Roland