On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 11:22:05AM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Package: aptitude > Version: 0.4.3-1 > Severity: normal > > I may just be doing something stupid, but if I am, I can't figure out what > it is... when I aptitude upgrade -D, I get: > > The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed: > fam (R: libgnomevfs2-0, R: nautilus, S: kdelibs4c2a) libarts1-akode (R: > libarts1c2a) > > Well, why won't they? The manual page doesn't say so, but the manual in > /usr/share/doc confirms that installing Recommended packages is the default. > I don't have anything affecting this option in configuration files (if I go > into the aptitude GUI, Recommends-Important shows up as true in the > preferences). None of the verbose or debug options I could found provided > any clue why these packages were not being installed. > > I'm not very comfortable navigating the aptitude GUI, but as far as I can > tell, hitting upgrade there didn't install them either.
aptitude relies on apt's auto-installation to pull in Recommends, and recommendations of packages being upgraded aren't pulled in by default. aptitude's own resolver *will* try to resolve Recommendations that "look new", once it's invoked, but doesn't run unless there's a broken mandatory dependency. I'm not sure if the solution here is to write my own auto-installation code, or to wait for #258425 to be resolved. Daniel
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