Re: Recommended Packages acting like Required

On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 05:05:11PM +0000, Greg Cox wrote:

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If you look at http://packages.debian.org/lenny/spamassassin, libmail-spf-perl is a recommended, not a required.

Since version 0.7.7 apt installs Recommends by default. I think you want
something like this in apt.conf:

APT::Install-Recommends false;

If I try to upgrade openssh-client openssh-server and ssh:
The following extra packages will be installed:
cpp cpp-4.2 gcc-4.2-base libx11-6 libx11-data libxau6 libxdmcp6 libxext6 libxmuu1 x11-common xauth

cpp isn't even listed in the web page.

openssh-server (and -client) recommends xauth which depends on cpp.

Regards,
Andrei
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