[Novalug] best way to back up a home partition.

[DonJr]

On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 17:43 -0400, Angelo Bertolli wrote:
> DonJr wrote:
> > [*1] Funny thing neither apt-get or synaptic have this problem.
> > I can switch back and forth between them and dpkg without any problems.
> >   
> 
> I've used wajig in conjunction with those without any problems as well.  
> Maybe it's because synaptic and wajig don't keep any more metadata than 
> apt-get does.  Anyway, it bothers me a little bit that recommends are 
> automatically installed with apt-get now.
> 
> Angelo

To adjust apt-get back to the way it was edit
your /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01ubuntu configuration file:

APT
{
  NeverAutoRemove
  {
        "^linux-image.*";
        "^linux-restricted-modules.*";
  };

  Install-Recommends-Section "metapackages";
};

And remove the above 'Install-Recommends-Section "metapackages";' line.

See 'man 5 apt.conf' for details.

That's the main difference from earlier versions.

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