On Thursday 24 March 2005 04:40 am, Javier Fern�ndez-Sanguino Pe�a wrote: > > <sarcasm>Thanks for the slap upside the head</sarcasm>, but aptitude > > has never done anything as stupid as automatically installing Suggested > > packages by default, and in the latest version that option (automatic > > installation of Suggests) isn't even available precisely because it is > > pretty much always harmful. > > Could you please reread the Bug report? I did not say that aptitude pull in > Suggests:. I _did_ say that aptitude pulled in Standard: packages (and > their Recommends:) and left a system that was targeted as a desktop > environment as a full development environment. Would you mind going > through a typical installation and see what aptitude would pull in? Or, > better, review the following bugs with similar concerns: > #298702, #270676, #246357, #272406 and #272586
Actually, what you said was: > I believe the culprit here is aptitude, which pulls down Suggests: happily > trying to be helpful for the end-user (and usually is) but which ends up > generating an over-bloated system. But OK, I believe that you *meant* to say "standard packages". Anyway, aptitude also doesn't pull in standard packages by default, except that the installer tells it to. So what you're asking for is basically that aptitude selectively ignore the instructions it's given based on "knowing better". I hope you see why I really don't want to get into that game :-). > I will try to work this out by changing how tasksel calls aptitude and see > if that's possible. If not, I will again ask for a feature that tasksel > could use to ask for Standard: packages but blacklisting some of them, I'm > not sure if that's even possible right now. I believe tasksel does something like "aptitude install ~pstandard". You could modify this with something like "aptitude install ~pstandard blacklisted1_ blacklisted2_ ...". The only real problem would be if you exceeded the maximum command length, in which case I'd have to implement the TODO item to read commands from a file/pipe. Daniel -- /------------------- Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------\ | If we do these things in the greenwood, | | what will happen in the dry? | \------------ Evil Overlord, Inc: http://www.eviloverlord.com --------------/
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