> > > 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).
My bad it is, I just use a machine where I can't remember changing that in years and boy am I glad. -- _______________________________________________________________________ '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/554498.15807...@smtp112.mail.ird.yahoo.com
