[Aptitude-devel] Bug#592836: hotkey for adding package without "recommends" list?

[Harald Dunkel]

Hi Manuel,

On 04/05/2016 08:41 PM, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote:
>>
>> Maybe the '&' could be used to ignore the recommended
>> packages, while '+' includes all recommended packages
>> as before.
> 
> Perhaps the barely visible 'I' can be used for this, I don't know how
> well it works in practice.
> 

I don't know a hotkey "I" at all. Not documented, AFAICS.

> (It probably should be added to menus and maybe needs better
> documentation).
> 

Probably.

> 
> Also, you can use '+' and then selectively remove/purge the Recommends
> planned to be installed, I think that it shuold work fine, and in most
> cases would be less taxing than editing the file.
> 

Sorry, but this is not an option. Some packages have an awful long
list of recommendations, not to mention recursive dependencies that
won't go away on "_", because they are on the recommends list of
others. "_" or "-" are *not* an undo of "+" in aptitude.

(Maybe this could be changed as well. *Very* often I have to leave
aptitude with ^C to get back to a reasonable state, ignoring the
previous list of packages to install.)


Regards
Harri