Re: debian/control file: how to selectively suppress recommends?

2017-10-04 Thread Ivan Shmakov 
> Marcel Partap  writes:

 > Dear fellow Debianauts, right now I am in the process of migrating my
 > selection of manually installed packages to a freshly debootstrapped
 > install using a set of meta-packages built with equivs.  While that
 > works nice and well, in some instances, I would like to limit the
 > number of recommends being pulled in, without turning recommends off
 > completely (the meta-packages themselves use
 > Recommends:dependencies).  So the --no-install-recommends parameter
 > or APT::Install-Recommends "0" are of no help in this case.  Any
 > ideas how to block installation of only some packages'
 > recommendations?

Use apt_preferences(5)?  Like, say:

$ cat < /etc/apt/preferences.d/thanksbutnothanks.pref 

Explanation: Certain packages are not welcome here.
Package:
 systemd-sysv upstart
 dbus dbus-x11 gconf-service
 ssl-cert
 acpi-support-base tsconf
Pin: release c=main
Pin-Priority: -42

$ 

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Re: debian/control file: how to selectively suppress recommends?

2017-09-27 Thread Paul Wise 
On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 10:28 PM, Marcel Partap wrote:

> Any ideas how to block installation of only some packages' recommendations?

I assume that adding Breaks or Conflicts to your meta-packages for the
packages you do not like should do the trick. You can even go one step
further and add Provides for the cases where the packages you do not
like are Depended on by some package in Debian. For example some
desktops may Depend on CD/DVD related tools but your computer might
not have a CD/DVD drive. With versioned Provides now being supported
you can even prevent versioned Depends being installed.

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debian/control file: how to selectively suppress recommends?

2017-09-27 Thread Marcel Partap 
Dear fellow Debianauts,
right now I am in the process of migrating my selection of manually installed 
packages to a freshly debootstrapped install using a set of meta-packages built 
with equivs. While that works nice and well, in some instances, I would like to 
limit the number of recommends being pulled in, without turning recommends off 
completely (the meta-packages themselves use Recommends:dependencies). So the 
--no-install-recommends parameter or APT::Install-Recommends "0" are of no help 
in this case.
Any ideas how to block installation of only some packages' recommendations?

#Best Regards/Marcel Partap