Re: How to install Suggested (Was: Are all recommended modules equally important?)

2008-03-28 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Joe Smith wrote: I will say the following. I fully agree that "--install-suggests" should exist, and should do the right thing. It sounds like an easy enough feature to add, my guess is that the code for installing or not installing recommends could be adapted to work with

Re: Re: How to install Suggested (Was: Are all recommended modules equally important?)

2008-03-19 Thread Filipus Klutiero
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Don Armstrong wrote: So you do something like: apt-get -o APT::Install-Suggests=true install foo; or similar. [Though it probably should be an easier option, it is possible to do.] Well, this hint was given now in the initial thread on Debian-Me

Re: How to install Suggested (Was: Are all recommended modules equally important?)

2008-03-19 Thread Joe Smith
"Andreas Tille" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Don Armstrong wrote: So you do something like: apt-get -o APT::Install-Suggests=true install foo; or similar. [Though it probably should be an easier option, it is possible to do.] Well, this

Re: How to install Suggested (Was: Are all recommended modules equally important?)

2008-03-19 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Stephen Gran wrote: Ahhh, nice place to hide some information. Users only have to [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ man apt.conf | grep /usr/share/doc/apt/examples/configure-index.gz | wc -l 3 I think that's called hidden in plain sight. I would not call it intuitive that you shou

Re: How to install Suggested (Was: Are all recommended modules equally important?)

2008-03-19 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Andreas Tille said: > On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, LUK ShunTim wrote: > > >"man apt.conf" points you to > >/usr/share/doc/apt/examples/configure-index.gz. Maybe it has something > >you want. :-) > > Ahhh, nice place to hide some information. Users only have to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: How to install Suggested (Was: Are all recommended modules equally important?)

2008-03-19 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Don Armstrong wrote: So you do something like: apt-get -o APT::Install-Suggests=true install foo; or similar. [Though it probably should be an easier option, it is possible to do.] Well, this hint was given now in the initial thread on Debian-Med and well, this actually

Re: How to install Suggested (Was: Are all recommended modules equally important?)

2008-03-19 Thread LUK ShunTim
Andreas Tille wrote: > On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, LUK ShunTim wrote: > >> "man apt.conf" points you to >> /usr/share/doc/apt/examples/configure-index.gz. Maybe it has something >> you want. :-) > > Ahhh, nice place to hide some information. Users only have to > > $ find /usr/share/doc/apt -type f -exe

Re: How to install Suggested (Was: Are all recommended modules equally important?)

2008-03-19 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 08:15:22AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > I'm sure there was such a method mentioned before and I can not imagine > that there is no way to force installation of Suggested packages. dselect can be used to install suggested packages, even if perhaps it cannot "automatically

Re: How to install Suggested (Was: Are all recommended modules equally important?)

2008-03-19 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Andreas Tille wrote: > Moreover fixing this in a config file is hardly a practical thing if > I want to force installing Suggests only once I do not want to edit > a config file but override the setting inside the config file with a > command line option. So you do something l

Re: How to install Suggested (Was: Are all recommended modules equally important?)

2008-03-19 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, LUK ShunTim wrote: "man apt.conf" points you to /usr/share/doc/apt/examples/configure-index.gz. Maybe it has something you want. :-) Ahhh, nice place to hide some information. Users only have to $ find /usr/share/doc/apt -type f -exec zgrep -li suggest \{\} \; ./changelo

Re: How to install Suggested (Was: Are all recommended modules equally important?)

2008-03-19 Thread LUK ShunTim
Andreas Tille wrote: > On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Charles Plessy wrote: > >> By the way, is there a way to install package with all the 'Suggest'ed >> dependancies, something like aptitude install bioperl --with-suggested >> ? I have >> not found anything in the manpage. > > Neither did I in man apt-ge

How to install Suggested (Was: Are all recommended modules equally important?)

2008-03-19 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Charles Plessy wrote: By the way, is there a way to install package with all the 'Suggest'ed dependancies, something like aptitude install bioperl --with-suggested ? I have not found anything in the manpage. Neither did I in man apt-get, man apt.conf, man apt-config, man a