-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 04/14/08 12:06, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2008-04-14 18:32 +0200, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 04/14/08 10:56, Sven Joachim wrote: >>> You know that all these packages are just recommendations and you do not >>> need to install all (not even any) of them? >> Maybe there's an ambiguity in what "*will* be installed" means? > > Probably not; if you'd use aptitude rather than apt-get, you could use > the "--without-recommends" commandline option or use the TUI to sort out > which of the recommended packages you want and which not (the latter is > what I did). But even with apt-get, you can remove the recommended > packages at any time, that's the difference between dependencies and > recommendations, after all.
Since when does apt-get automatically pull in recommended packages? Quite frequently I see it recommend packages, but not automatically pull them in. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA We want... a Shrubbery!! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIA5NSS9HxQb37XmcRAixSAKDT7YJWjbPl+y55RxvGsdi31nVWKACgkE8V 0C0kL5hIOEWqkwm2JgelOU8= =BY1M -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
