Hi, Neal Lippman wrote: > I did in install last pm of a package which "recommends" other packages, > which it turned out I needed in order to make things work. However,
Is that package needed to make a feature work or to make the whole program actually work? In the latter case this should be a Depends:... > apt-get install <package> did not automagically install the recommended > packages (it did get required dependencies) and I spent quite a while > before I figured that out. Right. > How do you cause apt-get to at least ask you about installing > recommended, or suggested, package dependencies? I am not sure you could...; sid's apt prints them out so you know them... Grüße/Regards, René -- .''`. René Engelhard -- Debian GNU/Linux Developer : :' : http://www.debian.org | http://people.debian.org/~rene/ `. `' [EMAIL PROTECTED] | GnuPG-Key ID: 248AEB73 `- Fingerprint: 41FA F208 28D4 7CA5 19BB 7AD9 F859 90B0 248A EB73
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