On Mon, 1 Feb 2016 15:58:36 +0100 Didier Kryn <[email protected]> wrote: > On my laptop the file 99synaptic contains only one line: > APT::Install-Recommends "false"; > > If all the files are read by all apt tools, then the setting > meant for synaptic applies to all apt tools. If i'd purge synaptic, > then the behaviour of apt-get might change. Does it make sense? It > seems to me that this file should contain some indication tnat the > setting applies only to synaptic.
Wouldn't it make more sense then to put the configuration in its own, apt-independent place? I have no clue how synaptic calls apt-get and if it was possible to just append the respective option to the call after the parsing of apt.conf, but the current solution indeed seems to be not consistent.
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