On 2016-11-14 15:52:28 +0100, Diederik de Haas wrote: > On maandag 14 november 2016 15:12:14 CET Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > aptitude often ignores Recommends. So, you should not rely on it. > > That's an incorrect statement. > Aptitude, and I think apt too, doesn't automatically install _new_ > recommended > packages for an already installed package. > It does report "The following recommended packages will not be installed" (or > sth along those lines). But that's far from ignoring it.
No, I do not always get these reports. Here I didn't even have any report that a recommended package would be removed: aptitude just said that <some list of packages> would be removed because they are no longer used. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
