tags 543256 pending thanks On Sunday 23 August 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > Attached patches (untested, but straightforward) for three components: > - base-installer, where the question will be asked and which will > configure apt accordingly; this means the base system installation > will now also install Recommends (for CD-based installs [1]: only if > available on the CD [2]!); the selected setting will persist for the > installed system > - di-utils: apt-install will now respect the global option instead of > always disabling Recommends > - pkgsel: same, plus removes now redundant question for additional > packages
I've committed the patches with the following changes: - the question is never asked, but the setting must either be preseeded or set at the boot prompt (using 'recommends=false') - I've preserved --no-recommends for the security updates step, as allowing aptitude to install new packages there would result in inconsistent behavior (randomly depending on for which packages updates are available) - two minor bugs fixed that were found during testing - added the 'recommends' alias for the template Cheers, FJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
