On Vi, 03 ian 14, 08:22:50, Intense Red wrote:
> On Thursday, January 02, 2014 10:04:33 PM Jordan Metzmeier wrote:
> > Dovecot does not require mysql. The dovecot-common package
> > recommends dovecot-mysql. Apt installs recommended packages by
> > default, but they are not required. You can exclude recommended
> > packages with --no-install-recommends.
>
> And to do this without adding the command-line parameter, edit the file
> /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20norecommends putting:
>
> APT {
> Install-Recommends "false";
> };
>
> into it, and/or use the command
>
> echo 'APT::Install-Recommends "0";' >> /etc/apt/apt.confI disagree to using this *permanent* setting, except for space restricted machines[1]. It only drives package maintainers to put in Depends what actually belongs in Recommends. If you find that Recommends are used wrongly do file bugs. See #731180 for an example. [1] in my case a Raspberry Pi running from a 2 GiB SD card. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic http://nuvreauspam.ro/gpg-transition.txt
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