On Mon, 1 Feb 2016 15:58:36 +0100
Didier Kryn <kryn@???> wrote:
> On my laptop the file 99synaptic contains only one line:
> APT::Install-Recommends "false";
>
> If all the files are read by all apt tools, then the setting
> meant for synaptic applies to all apt tools. If i'd purge synaptic,
> then the behaviour of apt-get might change. Does it make sense? It
> seems to me that this file should contain some indication tnat the
> setting applies only to synaptic.
Wouldn't it make more sense then to put the configuration in its own,
apt-independent place? I have no clue how synaptic calls apt-get and if
it was possible to just append the respective option to the call after
the parsing of apt.conf, but the current solution indeed seems to be not
consistent.