On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 05:27:27PM -0400, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Package: aptitude > Version: 0.4.4-4 > Severity: normal > > tasksel has to run aptitude --without-recommends because there are > (still; see #388290) a great many bogus recommends that would unduely > bloat the tasks it installs. > > However, according to #417689, if a user uses aptitude with recommends > and later runs tasksel, it can remove lots of packages: > > > The problem is that, in aptitude, --without-recommends > > triggers the removal of automatically installed packages > > that are recommends and not depends: so it should be avoided. > > So I guess that aptitude needs a way to get the --without-recommends behavior > when installing new packages, without the behavior of recoming old > automatically installed recommends. Or alternatively, is this just an aptitude > bug?
I have a patch in the current aptitude darcs head that will do what you want, so this should be fixed in the next release. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
