On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 11:09:29PM -0400, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 09:59:58PM -0500, Chris Cheney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > was heard to say: > > On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 10:09:16PM -0400, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 04:10:21PM -0500, Chris Cheney <[EMAIL > > > PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > > > I also don't think it is a particularly good idea for aptitude to > > > > default to installing suggests since it will likely bloat systems quite > > > > a bit installing various things such as bash-doc, gpart, parted, etc. > > > > > > aptitude doesn't depend on any of those. Do you mean when installing > > > other packages? If too much stuff is being pulled in from Recommends, > > > the package maintainers are using Recommends incorrectly. I haven't > > > found this to be a problem in practice. > > > > I meant since aptitude defaults to installing suggests by default, there > > Hm, it does. I thought I fixed that ages ago. > > Just for some background: this wasn't supposed to happen, because > turning suggests on is a really bad idea, but I apparently accidentally > set it to "true" in one place in the code and "false" in another place > and in the documentation. I thought I fixed this at one point in the > past, but apparently not. > > What happens is that the default state is actually false, but if > you go to the preferences dialog, the preferences dialog shows that it's > selected and selecting "Ok" causes the setting to be changed.
Ah ok, I'm glad I was able to point it out before release. :) > > Handling all the options were X'd which means selected right? I can't > > paste it here since aptitude seems to have mouse support so copy/paste > > doesn't work. > > Just FYI, you can use Shift to override mouse support in programs. Thanks, I didn't know about that either. BTW - Is there a way to see what a package provides under its information screen? It seems to display just about everything else but that. Chris Cheney
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