On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 09:40:41PM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: [cut]
> > Note that for a minimal dependencies default, the options to > apt-get are not ideal. We have these two options related to > the dependency graph. > > --no-install-recommends > Do not consider recommended packages as a dependency for > installing. > Configuration Item: APT::Install-Recommends. > > --install-suggests > Consider suggested packages as a dependency for installing. > Configuration Item: APT::Install-Suggests. > > Looks like we need to add this: > > --install-recommends > Consider recommended packages as a dependency for installing. > Configuration Item: APT::Install-Recommends. > AFAIR the default policy in Debian (up to wheezy) was to have Recommends installed, but not Suggests. This seems a sensible strategy in many cases, since usually Recommends are packages which are actually *necessary* to some functionality of a package (and many users would be disappointed in discovering that most of the things that "are just there" automagically when you apt-get install something, won't be there if you don't bring in Recomennds). But that has not been the policy of Ubuntu (at least in the very few early releases), which had --install-suggests on by default (I don't know what happend to Ubuntu after Hoary, to be honest ;)) Anyway, I second the addition of an explicit --install-recommends, which would be more clear that --no-install-recommends=no My2Cents KatolaZ -- [ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ --- GLUG Catania -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ me [at] katolaz.homeunix.net -- http://katolaz.homeunix.net -- ] [ GNU/Linux User:#325780/ICQ UIN: #258332181/GPG key ID 0B5F062F ] [ Fingerprint: 8E59 D6AA 445E FDB4 A153 3D5A 5F20 B3AE 0B5F 062F ] _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng