On Fri, 8 Apr 2016 09:58:04 +0200 Adrien CLERC <adr...@antipoul.fr> wrote:
> Le 08/04/2016 05:49, Harlan Lieberman-Berg a écrit : > > [1]: I say default here, but really, systems which turn off > > installing things which are Recommended are almost unusuable; I > > know for a while it was the policy of #debian to just turn away > > people who had done that because the system would be in such a > > strange state. Sincerely, > While I think installing recommended packages by default is a good > choice, disabling it is also a really good option on servers. > Installing every recommended packages is sometimes the best way to > bloat your system. > > It makes me think I'd love a system where Apt::Install-Recommends > could be set to "ask" and let apt ask me if I want the recommended > packages for my current request. apt already shows you which packages are to be brought in as Recommends on every invocation and unless you use the -y option you get the option to quit. You can already choose to quit and call apt with the --no-install-recommends option for this specific invocation of apt. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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