Bonus packages in fai-mirror

Tim Cutts tjrc at sanger.ac.uk
Thu Mar 27 08:46:27 CET 2008


On 20 Mar 2008, at 8:32 pm, Russel Hill wrote:
> Michael Tautschnig wrote:
>>> Andreas Sindermann wrote:
>>>
>>> [snip...]
>>>
>>>> Perhaps in your package_config files you install with 'aptitude -r'
>>>> instead of simple aptitude?
>>> I only use 'install'.
>>>
>> Which distro are you using? Is it lenny or etch?
>
> lenny

Hasn't aptitude's default changed in lenny?  In etch and earlier, the  
default was *not* to install Recommends dependencies.  The default in  
Lenny is to install them.  As others have suggested, you can set the  
apt.conf file to whichever policy you prefer.

Tim


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