On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 01:37:44AM +0100, W. Martin Borgert wrote: > On 2009-03-24 21:32, Alexander Wirt wrote: > > we had some irc discussion about automatic installation of recommends > > with lenny's apt. Unfortunatly the only source of this attitude is > > some mailinglist traffic and the apt changelog. Please mention the > > automatic installation of recommends in the release-notes. > > Somehow I was sure, this feature came with etch. Could you > please prepare a patch? (short paragraph, maybe also how to > emulate the old behaviour) TIA
I propose to mention it in chapter 2.1.1. Package management of the release notes: http://www.fr.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/index.en.html Here is a patch for this. Alexander, can you review it before I apply it? Thanks in advance, -- Nekral
Index: en/whats-new.dbk =================================================================== --- en/whats-new.dbk (révision 6858) +++ en/whats-new.dbk (copie de travail) @@ -346,7 +346,15 @@ best solution if conflicts are detected because of changes in dependencies between packages. </para> +<para> + For &releasename; APT automatically installs recommended packages by + default. + This can be changed by adding the following line in + <filename>/etc/apt/apt.conf</filename>: + <programlisting>APT::Install-Recommends "false";</programlisting> +</para> + <programlisting condition="fixme"> TODO: Do we have to mention dpkg triggers here or elsewhere? </programlisting>
