apt now installs recommends by default

Dustin Kirkland kirkland at canonical.com
Wed Jun 11 17:54:22 BST 2008


Hmm, is there an option to apt-get to "not install recommends", even
if installing "recommends" is now the default behavior?

Some people with very small machines (like 1-2GB flash disks) rely on
installing a bare minimal ubuntu (via mini.iso + CLI install), and
then using apt-get to create super-trimmed down systems.

My sniff testing shows that I won't be able to do this anymore, if all
recommended packages are pulled in.


:-Dustin



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