Re: Recommended Packages acting like Required

2008-03-30 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 05:05:11PM +, Greg Cox wrote: [...] > If you look at http://packages.debian.org/lenny/spamassassin, > libmail-spf-perl is a recommended, not a required. Since version 0.7.7 apt installs Recommends by default. I think you want something like this in apt.conf: APT::

Recommended Packages acting like Required

2008-03-30 Thread Greg Cox
I don't want to dump a ton of data into this message, so I'll cover the highlights. System is darn-near fully patched against lenny. $ sudo apt-get -s upgrade | egrep '(ssh|spamassassin)' | grep Inst Inst openssh-server [1:4.7p1-4] (1:4.7p1-5 Debian:testing) [] Inst openssh-client [1:4.7p1-4] (1