Proposal for apt install-recommends settings

Markus Hitter mah at jump-ing.de
Tue Oct 28 10:09:17 UTC 2008


Am 28.10.2008 um 07:19 schrieb Mario Vukelic:

> shouldn't such users be expected of being capable of reading man
> apt-get, man apt.conf, man aptitude and the like? I would think so.

Those man pages a huge, you can easily fill a day reading and  
comparing them.

> And IMHO, reading through those man pages I can't see any options that
> pop out as useless.

The existence of aptitude duplicates a lot of what apt-get can do  
already. I've yet to find a case where aptitude is actually needed.


MarKus

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