#901444 apt: should warn when recommends can't be installed and/or optionally fail

Package:
apt
Source:
apt
Description:
commandline package manager
Submitter:
Paul Gevers
Date:
2022-03-10 10:33:05 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
#901444#5
Date:
2018-06-13 12:14:48 UTC
From:
To:
Dear APT maintainers,

With APT::Install-Recommends=true or --install-recommends, apt-get
silently continues when it fails to install recommended packages.

I have two requests (do you want two bugs?)
- It would be nice if apt-get would show a warning that recommended
  packages were not (all) installed.
- It would be nice if there was an option to let apt-get abort if
  recommended packages can't be installed when asked to do so.

Paul
#901444#12
Date:
2018-06-15 13:54:35 UTC
From:
To:
Paul Gevers <elbrus@debian.org> schrieb am Mi., 13. Juni 2018, 14:18:


It does show a list "Recommended packages" for recommends it did not
satisfy.

- It would be nice if there was an option to let apt-get abort if

Might be useful. You could hack it yourself by merging recommends lines
into depends lines in status and lists files if you absolutely need that.