On Wednesday 03 March 2010, bdk wrote:
> For aptitude create /etc/apt/apt.conf and add:
>
> APT::Install-Recommends =E2=80=9C0=E2=80=B3;
> APT::Install-Suggests =E2=80=9C0=E2=80=B3;
>
> Turns off both Recommends and Suggests. I was shocked moving from
> Debian3 to 4 or 4 to 5 when Debian defaulted to both of those options
> being turned on. IMHO one of the worse decisions that Debian could of mad=
e.
>
> -Sean
Thanks for that. Must have been the 3 to 4 transition -- that's when Avahi=
=20
started to infect all my systems. (Recommended by cups, java, kde...)
Now I can do an `aptitude purge avahi-daemon` without aptitude telling me i=
t=20
has to also purge KDE....
:)
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