Jonas Smedegaard <jo...@jones.dk> writes: > Quoting John Crawley (2019-07-12 22:52:55) > > > Anyway, even if your system default is to install Recommends, apt-get > > (and apt too?) always gets user approval before installing anything > > beyond the package asked for. If the list looks too long (s)he can > > always hit (N) and try again with 'apt-get install > > --no-install-recommends <package>' > > ...and suppressing recommends exeptionally like that is quite sensible. > > Again, my strong criticism is only suppressing recommends by *default*.
Before I had suppressed recommends by default in apt.conf I *always* had to hit 'N' and try again with --no-install-recommends, because everytime "aptitude full-upgrade" (i.e. no new installs) wanted to install >100 MB, often 300MB+ of packages I don't want. urs
