Automatic installation of recommended packages

Luis de Bethencourt bethencourt at gmail.com
Wed Nov 14 08:27:11 GMT 2007


Sorry I couldn't join the discusion about it at UDS, but... what's the
purpose of this change?

Luis de Bethencourt

On Nov 14, 2007 6:21 AM, Michael Vogt <michael.vogt at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 03:16:57PM +0100, Laurent Bigonville wrote:
> > Hi,
> Hi,
>
> > Since the month of October, apt automatically install[1] all the
> > "Recommends" packages. Will Ubuntu follow this new policy for hardy too?
>
> Sorry for the late reply. We discussed this at the ubuntu developer
> conference and we plan to turn this feature on soon. Before that, we
> need to tune germinate and review the output for our default
> installation. More details on
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardyRecommendsHandling
>
> Cheers,
>  Michael
>
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