Previously Christian Hudon wrote: > dselect will bug you about it on *every session*, and you have to use 'Q' > to confirm this 'dangerous' setting. That makes recommends almost useless. IIRC you can also put a recommended package on hold and dselect won't bother you anymore. > PS Since dselect will eventually be replaced by apt, another relevant > question would be "how will apt deal with recommends?" From the Apt UI design: When the user selects a package which recommends other packages Apt will ask the user if he/she wants to install these packages as well. So Apt will only prompt the user the first time. Wichert. -- ============================================================================== This combination of bytes forms a message written to you by Wichert Akkerman. E-Mail: wakkerma@cs.leidenuniv.nl WWW: http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~wichert/
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