On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 03:42:36PM +0000, Aneurin Price <aneurin.pr...@gmail.com> was heard to say: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Daniel Burrows <dburr...@debian.org> wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 12:28:38PM +0000, Aneurin Price > > <aneurin.pr...@gmail.com> was heard to say: > >> To expand upon this, I believe the OP's situation is some behaviour I've > >> also seen, which seemed odd until I thought about it and couldn't actually > >> come up with a better way: > > > > I'm pretty sure this is different -- I was talking about the > > situation of "A Depends: B | C". People sometimes think that if both > > B and C are installed, aptitude should guess which one they don't want > > and remove it. > > > > Hmm, what happens in the case that exactly one of B or C is marked auto?
Same thing. > > The setting is Aptitude::Keep-Recommends. But in fact, this isn't > > enabled by default, although passing --without-recommends on the > > command-line enables it automatically for exactly the reason you pointed > > out. > > > > I read that as saying that setting the option from the preferences menu, > rather than the command-line, will *not* automatically enable > Aptitude::Keep-Recommends. Is that correct? Yep, that's right. The command-line option sets two preferences at once (because the alternative is surprising and usually not what you want). Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org