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Saturday, December 26. 2009

Debian Lenny Pulling in Recommends

OK, it appears as though somone in the debian community thought it was a good idea to make apt-get pull in Recomended packages, when it looks for dependencies, so therefore, when you try to install something like openssh-server for example, it grabs all the Recommends as well, which happens to include X11!.

Its easy to turn this off however by adding the following:

CODE:

// Recommends are as of now still abused in many packages APT::Install-Recommends "0"; APT::Install-Suggests "0";

to either /etc/apt/apt.conf or by creating a file inside /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ like 00NoAptRecommends.

This at least for me, stops this most unwanted change... why they actually did this i shall never know.

[ Credits goto: blogs.KoolWal.net for finding out how to turn this off!]

Keith

Posted by Keith Ward in General at 19:13 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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