On Sat 12 Nov 2016 at 23:44:56 -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > David Wright composed on 2016-11-12 22:09 (UTC-0600): > > >Select the first item, Preferences and you get UI Options. Again, about > >30 ↓ keystrokes gets to the line with, and when you're on it, the lower > >pane displays as above and gives a few lines of explanation. The line is > > [X] Install recommended packages automatically > >Where in that sequence does your aptitude behave differently? > > There are two panes, upper and lower, each about half a screen. I assumed > that the last item showing was the last available option under preferences. > Now that I know about the additional options, I see, and it does indeed > report that the default is True. > > I suppose it must be that my installer cmdline option > install-recommends=false must be taken into account, but I'm perplexed that
install-recommends=false means no recommended packages installed when using d-i and also set it up for the installed system with APT::Install-Recommends "false"; in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/00InstallRecommends. This will prevail for apt *and* aptitude. > multiple Jessie installations have the same Nov. 2015 timestamp on > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/00InstallRecommends while including False instead of the > reported default True. Similar timestamps? Installed on the same day? Check timestamps on directories. The reported "True" is the hard-coded aptitude default. The "Value" will be shown as "False" because of 00InstallRecommends. -- Brian.
