On Sat 12 Nov 2016 at 13:45:38 +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 11 November 2016 21:58:58 Brian wrote: > > Not installing a recommended package on a default Debian would be a bug. > > Aptitude on my current almost vanilla temporary Jessie install doesn't > install > recommends. But it makes a big point of telling me a) that they are > recommended and b) that they are not going to be installed. I then often, > but not always, install them. It doesn't strike me as a bug. This is Debian > not Ubuntu. > > I could, of course, reset aptitude. I am quite happy with the status quo.
Never really used aptitude but I've just installed it and ran the curses variety of the program. "options" at the top of the screen shows Option: Apt::Install-Recommends Default: True Value: True The behaviour of your aptitude is presumably because you have adjusted the default behaviour in some way. The new behaviour is not a bug. Also, a default Debian doesn't have aptitude but apt-get. which installs recommended packages by default. -- Brian.
