Update "Recommends"

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Mon, 2023-12-11 at 06:31 +0000, Grizzlly via ubuntu-users wrote:
> Suggests: fonts-lyx, pulseaudio, kwaterfoxhelper, waterfox-g-wayland, ffmpeg

Hi,

in /etc/apt/apt.conf and/or /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/* there's likely a line

APT::Install-Suggests "1"

or

APT::Install-Suggests "true"

just remove it, by default its disabled or replace "1" by "0" or "true"
with "false".

You likely can even keep it and run apt like this:

sudo apt full-upgrade --no-install-suggests

or

sudo apt full-upgrade -o APT::Install-Suggests=0

By default apt installs recommended, but no suggested packages.
Just some software is really incomplete without suggested packages. IIRC
one of those packages was (maybe still is) synaptic. However, most of
the times you usually want to install recommended, but not suggested
packages, just sometimes you want suggested packages, too or you even
don't want to install recommended packages. I sometimes even don't
install some hard dependencies (gvfs, pulseaudio ;).

Regards,
Ralf