> > Aptitude installs all recommended packages by default which was rather > > annoying until I found that in the options menu as I ran out of space a > > couple of times. > > as does apt-get.
I'm fairly sure synaptic doesn't select recommended by default, however the synaptic package itself is a package where installing recommended packages by default may be a good idea (Adds useful repo management functionality like add cdrom (which isn't obvious from the dependency descriptions) without pulling in the world). -- _______________________________________________________________________ 'Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface' (Doug McIlroy) _______________________________________________________________________ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/827742.38594...@smtp104.mail.ird.yahoo.com
