On Friday 31 August 2007 18:42, Sven Joachim wrote: > Hello, > > Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > sudo aptitude full-upgrade --with-recommends > > > > can anyone tell me why it still reports (for example): > > > > The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed: > > libjaxp1.3-java-gcj libxalan2-java-gcj > > The aptitude manual says: > > -r, --with-recommends > Treat recommendations as dependencies when installing new packages > > Note the *new* here. Recommendations for existing packages are _not_ > automatically installed, since aptitude presumes that you do not want > that; after all you did not install the recommended packages in > previous installs of your package. > > Of course this can be a problem since the recommendations may change > over time. This is probably what happened here. > > Regards, > Sven
That at least explains the behavior, and makes sense I guess. But I'd actually like it to really install all "recommends", for all packages I have installed. Thanks! C -- C. Hurschler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
