Henrik Nilsen Omma said on 2007-04-03: (permalink)
The debate auto-install of recommends is more of a policy issue than a bug.
It's not a policy issue - why main debian/ubuntu package manager,
aptitude, installs recommended packages as default, but synaptic
doesn't ? Please don't close this
The original problem of magnification not working has been fixed with
Orca and gnome-mag. The debate auto-install of recommends is more of a
policy issue than a bug. Marking Fixed.
** Changed in: synaptic (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed = Fix Released
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enable auto-install of recommends by
I agree with this, recommends should install by default by gnome-app-
installer and Synaptic, or at least tell us if there are recommends;
don't just be silent.
I tried to install the beryl metapackage in Feisty Fawn's beta universe,
and beryl-manager didn't install because it was only
Seems that this did not make it into edgy. What is the current status?
Can we get synaptic and the add programs applet to prompt to install the
recommended and suggested packages? Rather than silently install
Recommended packages, I think it should prompt the user for Recommended
and Suggested
