Package: apt Version: 0.7.14+b1 Followup-For: Bug #462962 Adding documentation for this is extremely important!
The only trace of documentation for this feature I've found is a posting in debian-devel-announce: From: Michael Vogt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 19:11:03 +0200 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The following two paragraphs from this mail could be added to the man pages of apt-get and/or apt.conf: Apt will install recommends by default for new packages as if those were depends. But it will not complain about unsatisfied recommends on your system. To turn this feature off, pass --no-install-recommends to apt or set, in your apt configuration, APT::Install-Recommends=False. (Maybe even add the following paragraphs explaining --fix-policy) -- Package-specific info: -- (/etc/apt/preferences present, but not submitted) -- -- (/etc/apt/sources.list present, but not submitted) -- -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (550, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages apt depends on: ii debian-archive-keyring 2008.04.16+nmu1 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc1 1:4.3.1-2 GCC support library ii libstdc++6 4.3.1-2 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 apt recommends no packages. Versions of packages apt suggests: pn apt-doc <none> (no description available) ii aptitude 0.4.11.4-1 terminal-based package manager ii bzip2 1.0.5-0.1 high-quality block-sorting file co ii dpkg-dev 1.14.20 Debian package development tools ii lzma 4.43-14 Compression method of 7z format in ii synaptic 0.62.1 Graphical package manager -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
