Bug#473089: apt: Please enhance manpage how to install suggests
Package: apt
Version: 0.7.11
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Hi,
as suggested in #473079 an option for easily installing suggested
packages should be implemented. For the moment I would like to
see the apt-get manpage enhanced to easily find the workaround
with the -o option which I would regard as suboptimal. So please
consider the attached patch to enable users to detect easily how
to work with the -o option easily.
Kind regards and thanks for maintaining apt
Andreas.
-- Package-specific info:
-- (/etc/apt/preferences present, but not submitted) --
-- (/etc/apt/sources.list present, but not submitted) --
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (501, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable'), (5, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii debian-archive-keyring 2007.07.31 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a
ii libc6 2.7-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.3.0~rc2-1 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.3.0~rc2-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
apt recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
--- apt-get.8.orig 2008-02-17 01:15:20.000000000 +0100
+++ apt-get.8 2008-03-28 10:50:14.000000000 +0100
@@ -408,6 +408,15 @@
.RS 4
Set a Configuration Option; This will set an arbitary configuration option\. The syntax is
\fB\-o Foo::Bar=bar\fR\.
+For example use
+.RS 4
+\fBapt-get -o APT::Install-Suggests=true install foo\fR
+.RS -4
+to install foo including all packages that are suggested by package foo or
+.RS 4
+\fBapt-get -o APT::Install-Recommends=false install foo\fR
+.RS -4
+to prevent apt-get from installing recommended packages automatically.
.RE
.SH "FILES"
.PP
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