apt-get install option --[no]-install-recommends should be documented

[Uwe Geuder]

Binary package hint: apt

1.) lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.04.1
Release: 8.04

2.) apt-cache policy apt
apt:
  Installed: 0.7.9ubuntu17.1
  Candidate: 0.7.9ubuntu17.1
  Version table:
 *** 0.7.9ubuntu17.1 0
        500 http://fi.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.7.9ubuntu17 0
        500 http://fi.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages

3.) What you expected to happen

calling "man apt-get" should list all command line options

4.) What happened instead

options --install-recommends --no-install-recommends are not mentioned on the man page

I think these options are pretty important, because I don't think there exists a generally useful default to put to apt.conf.

It depends very much on the package, whether I want to the have the recommended packages or whether they just clutter up my system. So the command line options are very handy to use. But a bit difficult to find as long as they are undocumented.

Well, a fix should be very easy (just add a 2 sentences to the man page). Unfortunately I'm a Ubuntu newcomer and not at all familiar how I could contribute such a fix.

[Uwe Geuder (ubuntulp-ugeuder)]

Options are documented in Lucid at least. (I think it happened already earlier)