severity 606513 wishlist thanks Hi,
On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 11:33:57PM +0200, Geoff Shang wrote: > Package: release-notes > Severity: normal > > In the Ix86 version of the Squeeze Release Notes (at least) at > http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/i386/release-notes/, several > references are made to changing apt config options. The user is told > that they can change these options in /etc/apt/apt.conf. > But no such file exists on my Lenny system, and neither does it on that of a > friend running Syd, so chances are it doesn't in Squeeze either. You can create this /etc/apt/apt.conf (which doesn't exist by default). > Instead, there is /etc/apt/apt.conf.d which contains a number of files > but nowhere obvious to specify the suggested directives. We can nevertheless reword this a little bit: echo 'APT::Install-Recommends "false";' >> /etc/apt/apt.conf or echo 'APT::Install-Recommends "false";' >> /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/NNdisable-recommends (no clue about indices in man apt.conf) > I've yet to read the entire document, but have found this problem in > chapters 2 and 4. In particular, I'd like to disable the apparently new > behaviour of automatically installing recommended packages, but I don't > know where this directive should be specified. -- Simon Paillard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-doc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101209222626.gu5...@glenfiddich.ikibiki.org
