[Ma-linux] Re: [Dclug] Heads up for Debian users

[Eric Dantan Rzewnicki]

On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 11:01:25PM -0400, Angelo Bertolli wrote:
> Someone else posted this on another list, and I thought it was important 
> enough to let people know before they encounter it.  In some time, apt 
> will start installing recommended packages by default.  Here is a 
> reference to the policy change:
> 
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/08/msg00000.html
> 
> http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-binarydeps

And if you want to have the old behavior you can configure apt with:
APT::Install-Recommends=False

(It's mentioned in the announcemnet, but just in case you don't feel like
reading it ... )

-eric rz.