On Fri, 4 Mar 2016, Joel Roth wrote:
cat /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/40nosuggestrecommends
Apt::Install-Suggests false;
Apt::Install-Recommends false;
Nice. Done. Thanks.
I had reason a couple of nights ago to consult 'man apt-get'
because it seemed that lots of "suggested" pkgs were being
installed. The two relevant options I found on the man page:
--no-install-recommends
and
--install-suggests
lead me to believe that the desired default behavior is to go
ahead and install 'recommends' but not 'suggests'.
When as an experiment I added "--no-install-suggests" (not in
the man page afaik) to an apt-get commandline, I was surprised
that no error message leaped up i.e. I did not see "no such
option."
I'm sorry I don't have better empirical data to offer as to what
packages were involved, and how many, but my vote for the
question "Has weirdness crept into apt-get? is "Yes."
All best,
--
I am animated by distrust of all high guesses, and by sympathy
with the old prejudices and workaday opinions of mankind: they
are ill expressed, but they are well grounded.
George Santayana
