Comment 27 for bug 56742

On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 05:43:25PM -0500, Frédéric Brière <email address hidden> was heard to say:
> Until this bug is fixed, could the following be redacted from the
> manpage?
>
> -R, --without-recommends
> [...]
> Packages previously installed due to recommendations will not be
> removed.

  It was fixed in the same commit that introduced those lines:

changeset: 588:fc7b9b620fe9
user: Daniel Burrows <email address hidden>
date: Sat Jan 06 22:29:15 2007 +0000
summary: [aptitude @ Enable Keep-Recommends as well as disabling
Recommends-Important when --without-recommends is passed. This may have
side-effects I haven't forseen, but seems much better than removing
piles of packages for a single install. (Closes: #143532)]

daniel@alpaca:~/programming/aptitude/head$ hg diff -r 587:588
diff -r 0f9daa5a5dfc -r fc7b9b620fe9 doc/en/manpage.xml
--- a/doc/en/manpage.xml Sat Jan 06 06:27:33 2007 +0000
+++ b/doc/en/manpage.xml Sat Jan 06 22:29:15 2007 +0000
@@ -763,10 +763,12 @@ ihA raptor-utils - Ra
          <para>
            Do <emphasis>not</emphasis> treat recommendations as
            dependencies when installing new packages (this overrides
settings in <filename>/etc/apt/apt.conf</filename> and
<filename>~/.aptitude/config</filename>).
+ Packages previously installed due to recommendations
+ will not be removed.
          </para>

          <para>
- This corresponds to the configuration option <literal><link
            linkend='configRecommends-Important'>Aptitude::Recommends-Important</link></literal>
+ This corresponds to the pair of configuration options
<literal><link
linkend='configRecommends-Important'>Aptitude::Recommends-Important</link></literal>
and <literal><link
linkend='comfigKeep-Recommends'>Aptitude::Keep-Recommends</link></literal>.
          </para>
        </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
diff -r 0f9daa5a5dfc -r fc7b9b620fe9 src/main.cc
--- a/src/main.cc Sat Jan 06 06:27:33 2007 +0000
+++ b/src/main.cc Sat Jan 06 22:29:15 2007 +0000
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 // main.cc (ne�testscr.cc)
 //
-// Copyright 1999-2006 Daniel Burrows
+// Copyright 1999-2007 Daniel Burrows
 //
 // This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 // modify
 // it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published
 // by
@@ -323,6 +323,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
          break;
        case 'R':
          aptcfg->SetNoUser(PACKAGE "::Recommends-Important", "false");
+ aptcfg->SetNoUser(PACKAGE "::Keep-Recommends", "true");
          break;
        case 't':
          aptcfg->SetNoUser("APT::Default-Release", optarg);

  Apparently the Debian changelog didn't get picked up by the archive
software (maybe it was a multi-version upload?) so this wasn't closed.
Thanks for bringing this to my attention, I'll close it immediately.

  Daniel