[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jason Gunthorpe) wrote on 14.08.00 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Joey Hess wrote: > > You know, if apt could only support Reccommends, task packages could be > I don't care for this much, it breaks the model that apt-get follows, it Well, I'd *very very much* like apt-get to be able to do *something* with Recommends: and Suggests:. Currently, I either have to go to dselect just to see what Recommends: I'm missing, or else do some pretty incredible shell pipelines to handle Suggests: with apt-get. Not good. Now I can certainly accept that it'd be a bad thing to change apt-get's default behaviour, but that doesn't mean some reasonable support could not be done with some command line switches. I think the interesting functionality would be as follows: for (A) Recommends: or (B) Recommends:+Suggests:, for (i) a list of packages given on the command line or (ii) all installed packages, or (iii) all newly-to-install-or-upgrade packages (that is, recursively including packages which would be installed by a Recommends:/ Suggests:), list and optionally install those packages, the same way you'd do with extra Depends:. MfG Kai
