On Sat, 2016-11-12 at 17:19 +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote: > 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.
I'm pretty sure installing recommends is Debian's default. I remember it changing, and dug up this 2007 announcement of the fact... https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/08/msg00000.html I also have as the very first step in my personal notes for installing Debian instructions to disable that... Create /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20norecommends containing APT { Install-Recommends "false"; }; -- Tixy
