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Bug#148088: marked as done (apt libraries should optionally allow recommends to always be installed (not just for new packages))

Your message dated Sat, 08 Nov 2008 14:18:07 +0200
with message-id <4915837F.1090401@gmail.com>
and subject line closing #148088
has caused the Debian Bug report #148088,
regarding apt libraries should optionally allow recommends to always be installed (not just for new packages)
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Package: aptitude
Version: 0.2.11.1-2
Severity: wishlist

Hi Daniel,

You probably have enough wishlist bugs to be going on with, but here is just
one more. :-)

Aptitude in its default configuration (which I use) treats recommends as
dependencies. Apt-get doesn't.

Suppose that a package foo was installed by apt-get (apt-get install foo),
and had some recommends, which are not installed. If I then run

aptitude install foo

the recommends are not installed as they would be if foo was not already
installed (I haven't checked what the behaviour would be on upgrade), and
aptitude does nothing in this case. 

I think reasonable behaviour in this case would be for aptitude to install
the recommends, since after all this is a broken dependency as far as
aptitude is concerned. Do you agree, or is there some reason this
cannot/shouldn't be done?

So, when are you planning the next release?

                                             Best wishes, Faheem Mitha.

-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux Chrestomanci 2.4.17 #1 Tue May 21 01:00:26 EDT 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii  apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.2- 0.5.4           Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii  libc6                    2.2.5-6         GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libncurses5              5.2.20020112a-7 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libsigc++0               1.0.4-3         Type-safe Signal Framework for C++
ii  libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2   1:2.95.4-7      The GNU stdc++ library

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Version: 0.7.7

Apt, starting with 0.7.7 version, also treats 'Recommmends' as a dependency.
So, this bug is no more relevant.

-- 
Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, Ukrainian C++ developer.

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