On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 09:31:15PM -0400, "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:03:59PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 02:40:45AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > > > If you want less stuff installed, then you can tell aptitude not to > > > install 'recommends', > > > > If a package is listed as a recommends and you consider it should only > > be a suggests it is considered a bug. > > Yes but just because its recommended, things still work just fine. I > have all kinds of packages that don't have all the cruft that they > recommend. > > If you have a simple one-liner that will provide you with a list of the > packages which are recommended by installed packages but which aren't > themselves insalled, let me know. I'll run it and send you the results.
aptitude search '~Rrecommends:~i!~i' or to ignore recommendations that are satisfied (e.g., ORs) aptitude search '~RBrecommends:~i' Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]