On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 04:37:35PM -0600, lee wrote: > On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 09:12:35PM +0000, s. keeling wrote: > > > Aptitude always acts so weird :( What's the problem with it? Dselect > > > always just did what I wanted it to do. > > > > I've always suspected that apt/aptitude's not at fault. I seldom run > > into this stuff, I suspect, by simply eschewing Gnome/KDE/CUPS/... > > That's where the complexity comes in. > > Well, then try to install a web browser --- or several of them, like > galeon, mozilla and maybe even konqueror. Some things that don't work > in one of them eventually work in the other(s), so you're not done > with installing only one browser. Installing these draws a lot of > stuff with them that you don't need and don't want. Same is for a > number of other programs I'm installing because I need them. > > > I do a minimal install, then drag in only the stuff I want (fluxbox, > > emacs, mutt, slrn, bogofilter, afio, ...). It takes some time the > > first time, but take notes and it's faster than the automated way > > subsequently. > > Yeah, that's what I do, but I can't keep lots of stuff I don't > want/need from being installed unless I'd carefully make up my own > packages with the dependencies I want (every time I update) or just > ignore all dependencies and end up with a broken system. > > Starting with a minimal install used to work pretty well, but it > doesn't anymre :(
have you looked at the Aptitude::Install-Recommends option? Setting that to false may be what you're looking for... http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/projects/aptitude/doc/en/ch02s04s05.html A
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