Rich Morin wrote: > Debian's "apt-get install" command is documented as following "recommends" > links by default. It also follows "depends" links, presumably in a recursive > fashion. However, I haven't been able to find out if it also follows > recommends links recursively. > > For example, let's say that I run "apt-get install foo" and that foo depends > on or recommends bar. I would expect apt-get to install bar and all of its > dependencies. However, I don't know whether it would also install bar's > recommended packages, etc. Can someone please clarify this?
any package which depends upon another package would draw in whatever dependencies indicated in that so yes, it is recursive to the extent the package itself is properly done. this can be changed by options in /etc/apt files if you don't want the default behaviors of apt/apt-get, etc. songbird
