Le 08/04/2016 10:10, Neil Williams a écrit : > 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. > This involves a lot of keypresses, and I'm incredibly lazy ;) I was just wondering if apt could be more interactive, or if it is a design choice not to ask too many questions.
Adrien
