On Mon, Aug 05, 2019 at 11:03:53PM +0200, Urs Thuermann wrote:
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.
That's why I always user aptitude interactively, it's easy to just
override when it tells you what it's about to do. These days it's a meh
issue, not like the bad old days when a recommends was almost as much
effort to work around as a depends.
