Lindsay Sprinter <[email protected]> writes:
> I like a clean tight system without any extra items I cannot use. I
> found I could only do this with dselect, both aptitude and synaptic
> installed other items "depends" , ie "recommends" and "suggests"
> inspite of what one wanted. I found at the time a tried these one
> simply could not get around this so matter what one did.
As I explained upthread, Recommends are opt-out by default in Debian 6 and 7.
If dselect doesn't honor that, that's a bug.
If you had BOTHERED to read the manpages, you would have seen
aptitude --without-recommends
aptitude --with-recommends
apt-get --no-install-recommends
apt-get --install-recommends
...which modify this behaviour on a per-invocation basis.
It also describes how to change the default behaviour:
echo >>/etc/apt/apt.conf 'APT::Install-Recommends "0";'
Suggests are opt-out by default, and always have been.
I don't care if you want to keep using dselect, but you might want to
find a new a rationale for doing so.
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