>>>>> Marcel Partap <mpar...@gmx.net> writes:
> Dear fellow Debianauts, right now I am in the process of migrating my
> selection of manually installed packages to a freshly debootstrapped
> install using a set of meta-packages built with equivs. While that
> works nice and well, in some instances, I would like to limit the
> number of recommends being pulled in, without turning recommends off
> completely (the meta-packages themselves use
> Recommends:dependencies). So the --no-install-recommends parameter
> or APT::Install-Recommends "0" are of no help in this case. Any
> ideas how to block installation of only some packages'
> recommendations?
Use apt_preferences(5)? Like, say:
$ cat < /etc/apt/preferences.d/thanksbutnothanks.pref
Explanation: Certain packages are not welcome here.
Package:
systemd-sysv upstart
dbus dbus-x11 gconf-service
ssl-cert
acpi-support-base tsconf
Pin: release c=main
Pin-Priority: -42
$
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