On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 05:25:33PM +0100, Eric Lavarde - Debian wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Michael Koch said:
> > Recommends are installed by default. People explicitely dont installing
> > the recommends and then wondering about broken stuff are on their own.
> How do you mean this? Technically, apt-get and aptitude do *not* install
> Recommends by default. I read the policy in such a way that missing
> features are ok, broken should be a dependency.

aptitude does by default if its not re-configured and its the
recommended tool for the job since sarge.


Michael
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