On Saturday 12 November 2016 15:45:28 Brian wrote: > The behaviour of your aptitude is presumably because you have adjusted > the default behaviour in some way. The new behaviour is not a bug.
No, I haven't. This is a temporary machine, which I have not been using long. I have adjusted very little. I don't remember claiming that anything was a bug. > Also, a default Debian doesn't have aptitude but apt-get. which installs > recommended packages by default. Varies with time. Sometimes it is there and sometimes it isn't. When aptitude isn't there, I install it. But I don't configure it. So, after some exploring (aptitude show and aptitude search), in this installation (Jessie, 8.6 - I installed Jessie 8.5) aptitude was *not* automatically installed and the recommends of aptitude *were* automatically installed. I must watch for next time I have to install/not install some recommends and see why and when. Interesting. Thanks. Lisi
