On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 10:22 PM, Mark Allums <m...@allums.com> wrote: > On 11/20/2010 3:12 PM, Javier Barroso wrote: >> >> On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Mark Allums<m...@allums.com> wrote: > >>> >>> I'm unsure whether I have ever fully grasped the whole apt system, in all >>> it's glory, but why would a recommends ever be automatically pulled in? >>> Wouldn't it give the admin complete control over his system to notify >>> only, >>> and take control away from him to automatically install anything? What >>> is >>> the point of Linux, anyway, if we can't control what goes on our >>> computer. >>> Might as well be running Windows. > >> You can control what is going to be installed in your debian, if you >> don't want recommendations to be installed automatically, simply turn >> off this option in apt configuration. > > > Why was it ever the default to do so in the first place? (Synaptic, for > instance, for a very long time had a bug that reset the preference every > time it was started.) The default should be to not pull in anything that is > not an absolute dependency. Was a decission from debian developpers as you can see in [1] [2]. Your answer may be in that thread
Regards, [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/08/msg00000.html [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2007/08/msg00043.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktinsqirdfn062gpxmizggngphashtqe-cu+4b...@mail.gmail.com
