Paul Gevers <[email protected]> schrieb am Mi., 13. Juni 2018, 14:18:

> Package: apt
> Version: 1.6.1
> Severity: wishlist
> Control: affects -1 autopkgtest
> User: [email protected]
> Usertags: issue
>
> Dear APT maintainers,
>
> With APT::Install-Recommends=true or --install-recommends, apt-get
> silently continues when it fails to install recommended packages.
>
> I have two requests (do you want two bugs?)
> - It would be nice if apt-get would show a warning that recommended
>   packages were not (all) installed.
>


It does show a list "Recommended packages" for recommends it did not
satisfy.

- It would be nice if there was an option to let apt-get abort if
>   recommended packages can't be installed when asked to do so.
>

Might be useful. You could hack it yourself by merging recommends lines
into depends lines in status and lists files if you absolutely need that.
-- 
Julian Andres Klode  - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member

See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/.

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