On Sun 13 Nov 2016 at 07:01:27 -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Sun 13 Nov 2016 at 11:16:51 (+0000), Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Sunday 13 November 2016 04:09:13 David Wright wrote: > > > > I'd like to know how you found the above. Running aptitude 0.6.11 on > > > > vtty3 here as root in 8.6 I'm unable to find anything like that from > > > > its Options menu, or anywhere else. > > > > > > I type "?" which gives a list of key bindings. About 30 lines down it says > > > Control-t: Activate or deactivate the menu. > > etc. > > > > I assume you mean n-curses aptitude. I meant at the CLI. > > Oh, I was just answering Felix's question of Brian.
And very well answered it was, too. Before going on to respond to the following paragraph I want to repeat (in a slightly different way) what I said previously. A default install sets up the installed system to download recommended packages with apt, If aptitude is installed afterwards it also downloads recommended packages by default. A failure of apt or aptitude to do this would be a bug. > For the CLI, I think you (as the appropriate user) just: > cat /etc/apt/apt.conf /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/* ~/.aptitude/config | less > but then I assume you need to study man 5 apt.conf to ascertain > which options and settable, and which are defaults, etc. and > man <command> for any defaulting options that might take precedence > over the configuration files' options. The curses help that I described > has already merged the options from configuration files and the > commandline, hence the displayed Default and Value lines. apt-config dump | grep Recommends -- Brian.
