merge 54461 244710 thanks On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 01:11:18PM -0400, D. Goel wrote: > Package: apt > Version: 0.5.4 > Severity: wishlist > > Would love to see apt-get also prompt for all packages that are > recommended (or suggested) by any of the packages that are being > installed... perhaps doing something similar to the recursive > dependency-lookup. viz. have an option to treat recommendations as > if they were dependencies.. and have another option to treat > suggestions as dependencies.
Another duplicate. Please look over existing bugs first in the future. Current versions of apt already print out recommends and suggests for informational use. > PS: aptitude already has a --with-recommends... somethign similar for > apt-get would be awesome. Why not use aptitude? -- - mdz
