Re: aptitude full-upgrade - why does it not install Recommended packages?



Hello,

Chris <list.hurschler@xxxxxx> writes:

sudo aptitude full-upgrade --with-recommends

can anyone tell me why it still reports (for example):

The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed:
libjaxp1.3-java-gcj libxalan2-java-gcj

The aptitude manual says:

-r, --with-recommends
Treat recommendations as dependencies when installing new packages

Note the *new* here. Recommendations for existing packages are _not_
automatically installed, since aptitude presumes that you do not want
that; after all you did not install the recommended packages in
previous installs of your package.

Of course this can be a problem since the recommendations may change
over time. This is probably what happened here.

Regards,
Sven


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