On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 1:18 AM, Marco Tedaldi <teda...@hifo.uzh.ch> wrote:
> Am 18.02.2014 09:52, schrieb Hilko Bengen:
>
>>
>>
>> Thank you very much. Just tested (purged the liblinear1 and nmap before)
> and it worked.
>
> This apparently works around the issue!
>
> I've created 90NoRecommends in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ with this content:
> +++++
> # Prevent apt to pull in packages that are not dependencies but only
> recommended.
> APT{ Install-Recommends "false";};
> +++++
>
> But is this really intended behaviour? Shouldn't this "recommends" be
> moved into "suggests"?
>
Well Liblinear is definitely recommended for Nmap since it is required for
the IPv6 OS detection system. Maybe the Liblinear dependencies should be
changed so it doesn't pull in all that other stuff.
Cheers,
Fyodor
