Bug#473079: apt: Please implement --with-suggests
Package: apt
Version: 0.7.11
Severity: wishlist
Hi,
as it is discussed in the debian-devel mailinglist around
this posting [1], an explicite option --with-suggest option
for apt would be quite handy. It should be easier for
the user than
-o APT::Install-Suggests=true
and it should be documented clearly that this is a "non-recursive"
inclusion of suggested packages (it is not really clear
how the option above works), which means that the packages
that are suggested by the package will be included but
those packages that are in turn suggested by these should
not be installed. It might be worth thinking about a
further option that also install suggestions of the sugested
packages - but this might probably be the less used option.
Please see also [2] for this problem.
BTW, I'm aware of bug #230295 but I think it is different
because it asks for two things in one bug. One of this
is just solved (--recommends). So if you would like to
split bug #230295 into two parts I would agree with a merge.
The other half of the bug should turned into a request for
--without-recommends.
And no, I do not agree that the -o notation as mentioned
above is intuitive enough and users fail to find this option
because it is not explicitely documented in the man page.
Kind regards and thanks for maintaining apt
Andreas.
[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/03/msg00645.html
[2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/03/msg00697.html
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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
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