On Thu August 9 2007 12:08:05 pm Florent Rougon wrote: > Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > dselect doesn't force you to install recommended packages; for as > > long as I can remember (since Bo) it has given you a list with the > > recommends preselected, and a simple keypress is all that is needed > > to decline them. > > I'm afraid your memory is not serving you well here. I've been using > Debian since the time where slink was in "frozen" state, and I > remember very well that I had to wait a few years before being able > not to install Recommends. Looking at the changelog, it seems the > change (in dpkg trunk, not in stable releases!) dates from November > 1999: > > Sun Nov 28 21:56:32 CET 1999 Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * dselect/pkgdepcon.cc: don't treat recommends like (pre-)depends. > Instead make it similar to suggests but default to selecting the > package. > > For the sake of History, ;-)
I guess my memory doesn't really go back as far as I thought. Thanks for the correction. :) - Bruce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
