Received Mon 03 Nov 2003 6:07am +1100 from Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton: > ... > so, with that background, i am absolutely DELIGHTED to note that > apt has some additional information that it displays: it shows up > the recommended and suggested packages. > > this is INCREDIBLY helpful because by installing one package i can > go "hm, maybe i should add that, too". > > possible future improvements on this theme could include options, > including in /etc/apt/apt.conf, to _always_ add the recommended > packages to the list of packages to be installed.
I wanted something like this too, so I put it into wajig (a command line front end to apt and friends): wajig installr xserver-xfree86 installs the package and all the recommended packages. Similarly wajig installs xserver-xfree86 for suggested packages. And for both: wajig installrs xserver-xfree86 Regards, Graham