Bug#462962: apt: documentation for --no-install-recommends / APT::Install-Recommends needed!
Package: apt
Version: 0.7.14+b1
Followup-For: Bug #462962
Adding documentation for this is extremely important!
The only trace of documentation for this feature I've found is a posting
in debian-devel-announce:
From: Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org>
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 19:11:03 +0200
Message-ID: <20070801171103.GA5168@top.ping.de>
The following two paragraphs from this mail could be added to the man
pages of apt-get and/or apt.conf:
Apt will install recommends by default for new packages as if those
were depends. But it will not complain about unsatisfied recommends
on your system.
To turn this feature off, pass --no-install-recommends to apt or set,
in your apt configuration, APT::Install-Recommends=False.
(Maybe even add the following paragraphs explaining --fix-policy)
-- 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: (550, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii debian-archive-keyring 2008.04.16+nmu1 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a
ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.3.1-2 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.3.1-2 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
apt recommends no packages.
Versions of packages apt suggests:
pn apt-doc <none> (no description available)
ii aptitude 0.4.11.4-1 terminal-based package manager
ii bzip2 1.0.5-0.1 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii dpkg-dev 1.14.20 Debian package development tools
ii lzma 4.43-14 Compression method of 7z format in
ii synaptic 0.62.1 Graphical package manager
-- no debconf information
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