Proposal for apt install-recommends settings

[Markus Hitter]

Am 27.10.2008 um 23:26 schrieb Christopher James Halse Rogers:

> On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 20:03 +0100, Markus Hitter wrote:
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>> Perhaps you've seen it already, Synaptic has such a switch in it's
>> preferences. While this switch isn't ill-placed there, I think it
>> would be an advantage to put this into a more global place, like the
>> sources.list file. Then, the adjustment of this switch would go to
>> the package sources selector accordingly.
>>
>> What would you think about a global switch, without making a hijack-
>> package?
>>
> Isn't the contents /etc/apt/apt.conf.d already such a global switch?

Quite possible. I didn't know about this so far.

> it seems like it would be more useful to educate the relevant users  
> about the rich apt configuration options available.

If you have to educate people even after they looked for some  
feature, there's something wrong. Perhaps the feature set of apt &  
friends is richer than it is useful?


MarKus

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