-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > Andrei Popescu <andreimpope...@gmail.com> [2009-12-30 10:06]: > > On Wed,30.Dec.09, 09:37:16, Lukas Ruf wrote: > > Dear all > > > > Is there any possibility to overrule the package dependencies without > > modifying the package source? > > > > Reason for asking: I do not need to have doc packages installed on all > > of my servers. But some packages simply insist on installing their > > doc package too. > > Could you please point to concrete packages? I doubt any package will > *depend* on the respective -doc package, but will rather *recommend* it. >
texlive-base *depends* on texlive-doc-base > There are many ways to deal with this, here are 3 I know of: > > 1. (My preferred way for desktop machines) in aptitude's interactive > mode you can easily choose not to install a recommended package > > 2. Invoke your package manager with the relevant switch for one-time > installation without recommends > > 3. set > > APT::Install-Recommends "false"; > > in /etc/apt/apt.conf to globally disable installation of recommends. > Thanks for these hints. They help downstripping... wbr, Lukas - -- Lukas Ruf <http://www.lpr.ch> | Ad Personam Consecom <http://www.consecom.com> | Ad Laborem -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAks7G74ACgkQXf8zDoH8+EVMJwCgng2VXZ+TnDNa/4Nws2mryUqq wmQAnRRUkeNPMrOdS0Th2uhltORiOwnu =MNGX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org