> <sarcasm>Thanks for the slap upside the head</sarcasm>, but aptitude has > never done anything as stupid as automatically installing Suggested packages > by default, and in the latest version that option (automatic installation > of Suggests) isn't even available precisely because it is pretty much > always harmful.
Could you please reread the Bug report? I did not say that aptitude pull in Suggests:. I _did_ say that aptitude pulled in Standard: packages (and their Recommends:) and left a system that was targeted as a desktop environment as a full development environment. Would you mind going through a typical installation and see what aptitude would pull in? Or, better, review the following bugs with similar concerns: #298702, #270676, #246357, #272406 and #272586 > If you don't want certain packages to be installed on a default Debian > system, go talk to the debian-installer, tasksel, and ftpmaster teams, as > well as the maintainers of packages that are installed by default (if > they have inappropriate Depends and/or Recommends lines). I will not > modify aptitude > to second-guess the people who are in charge of configuring the default > Debian installation. (if they need more features in order to precisely > specify what should be installed, of course, I'm open to that) I was asking for that features also in the bug report as an alternative solution to the issue. The fact is, I thought there was no way for base-config to tell aptitude to not install development packages. On reviewing the tasksel code, however, I've seen that, in fact, tasksel could maybe ask aptitude to install standard packages (~pstandard) but _not_ install standard packages that are usually part of a development package. The problem is, changing priorities (as I've asked for in 301138) is not an easy task and might not even be possible for some packages (let's see..). I will try to work this out by changing how tasksel calls aptitude and see if that's possible. If not, I will again ask for a feature that tasksel could use to ask for Standard: packages but blacklisting some of them, I'm not sure if that's even possible right now. Regards Javier
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