On Wed August 8 2007 10:01:40 am Daniel Burrows wrote: > Just to clarify, aptitude didn't "come up" with anything. This was > the standard behavior in Debian at the time (dselect was far more > draconian about forcing you to install recommended packages), and one > of the top complaints I got was that aptitude mishandled Recommends > by not installing them!
dselect doesn't force you to install recommended packages; for as long as I can remember (since Bo) it has given you a list with the recommends preselected, and a simple keypress is all that is needed to decline them. - Bruce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
