On Saturday 01 September 2007 01:44, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 20:24:43 +0200, Chris wrote: > > On Friday 31 August 2007 18:42, Sven Joachim wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > Chris 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. > > In principle you could run > > aptitude install '!~i~Rrecommends:~i' > > to do this. I am not sure, however, how well "OR" recommendations and > recommendations of virtual packages will be handled. > > It is probably safer to start aptitude in interactive mode and use "l" > to limit the display to packages matching the same pattern: > > !~i~Rrecommends:~i > > Then you can press "+" for each of these packages and use undo > immediately for cases in which the installation would have unwanted side > effects. >
Thanks! I guess I was a bit naive about what would happen using --with-reccomends on everything. I will still use it when installing new packages because in the past I have run across the problem of installing something and painstakingly having to search for the correct packages to make some functionality work. That doesn't seem to be such a problem anymore, either becuase debian has gotten better or I have gottem more experienced. Also thanks to Mumia for his script, which works nicely. Chris -- C. Hurschler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
