[TAG] What is the policy of apt in lenny ?

[J.Bakshi]

On Monday 06 Oct 2008 7:30:07 am Rick Moen wrote:
> uoting Kapil Hari Paranjape (kapil at imsc.res.in):
> > The policy which has changed with lenny is that "Recommended" packages
> > are installed by apt unless the user specifically turns this feature
> > off.
>
> Aha.  Well, that's mildly evil.  One of several reasons I've always
> preferred the apt-get tool over aptitude is that (until now) it has
> defaulted to not autoinstalling "Recommends" dependencies.
>
> If I'd wanted a bloated system, I'd have installed GNOME in the first
> place.  ;->
>
> So, J.Bakshi, one wants to add:
>
> APT
> {
>         Install-Recommends "false";
>         Install-Suggests "false";
> };
>
> ...to /etc/apt/apt.conf .  Problem solved.

Thank You.. Thank You... thank You ..........  :-)

Rick you have saved me from having a bloated system. Your assumption is 
correct. I placed the configuration and then try to install gdeskcal and it 
accurately picks the required pacages only.

~~~~~~~~~~~
apt-get install gdeskcal
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  python-xml
Suggested packages:
  python-xml-doc python-xml-dbg
Recommended packages:
  gdesklets
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  gdeskcal python-xml
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 640kB of archives.
After this operation, 3912kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 http://ftp.de.debian.org lenny/main python-xml 0.8.4-10.1 [458kB]
Get:2 http://ftp.de.debian.org lenny/main gdeskcal 0.57.1-2 [181kB]
Fetched 640kB in 46s (13.7kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package python-xml.
(Reading database ... 56139 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking python-xml (from .../python-xml_0.8.4-10.1_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package gdeskcal.
Unpacking gdeskcal (from .../gdeskcal_0.57.1-2_all.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for menu ...
Setting up python-xml (0.8.4-10.1) ...
Setting up gdeskcal (0.57.1-2) ...
Processing triggers for menu ...
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Also thanks a lot to make my apt behaves as the old one which only install the 
required packages and that is the reason I like apt so much. Thanks to all of 
you for your hints, help and being with me to solve it. I am so happy to get 
back my old apt.