On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 21:11 +0530, shirish wrote:
> That's sudo aptitude safe-upgrade which is good.
apt-get update
and full-upgrade is the same as dist-upgrade
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Hi all,
I am also in the favor of having recommends removed or switched off.
I saw the /etc/apt/apt.conf.d but that is a diretory. Kindly tell
what as a user am I supposed to do that in the directory.
As far as aptitude is concerned, yes it duplicates what apt-get does
but it also does what apt
Am 28.10.2008 um 07:19 schrieb Mario Vukelic:
> shouldn't such users be expected of being capable of reading man
> apt-get, man apt.conf, man aptitude and the like? I would think so.
Those man pages a huge, you can easily fill a day reading and
comparing them.
> And IMHO, reading through thos
On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 07:06 +0100, Markus Hitter wrote:
> If you have to educate people even after they looked for some
> feature, there's something wrong. Perhaps the feature set of apt &
> friends is richer than it is useful?
Since the OP targeted his suggestion to "The user who does a cli-o
Am 27.10.2008 um 23:26 schrieb Christopher James Halse Rogers:
> On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 20:03 +0100, Markus Hitter wrote:
> ...
> snip
> ...
>> Perhaps you've seen it already, Synaptic has such a switch in it's
>> preferences. While this switch isn't ill-placed there, I think it
>> would be an adv
Because I suck, here's the mail I accidentally privately sent.
On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 20:03 +0100, Markus Hitter wrote:
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snip
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>Perhaps you've seen it already, Synaptic has such a switch in it's
> preferences. While this switch isn't ill-placed there, I think it
> would be an advantage to
Am 24.10.2008 um 16:07 schrieb vidd:
> In Intrepid (8.10), this behavior has changed. Now recommends are
> being
> treated as depends.
> For the majority of users, this is tolerable.
> However, for some users, particularly net-device users, low-spec
> servers, and minimalists, this is a heavy b
As was done in Debian, Ubuntu has elected to modify the default handling
of recommended packages.
In Hardy (8.04) apt-config dump shows the default setting
APT::Install-Recommends "0";
This has the result of apt-get listing recommended items, but not
installing these items by default.
In Intr
