Nico Schottelius wrote on 02/05/2014 09:00 PM:
>> +# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
>> +# GNU General Public License for more details.
>> +#
>> +# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
>> +# along with cdist. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
>> +#
>> +
>> +
>> +os=$(cat "$__global/explorer/os")
>> +
>> +case "$os" in
>> +   ubuntu|debian)
>> +      # No stinking recommends thank you very much.
>> +      # If I want something installed I will do so myself.
>> +      __file /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99-no-recommends \
>> +         --owner root --group root --mode 644 \
>
> Just wondering, shouldn't the file end in .conf? Probably not required, but wondering if it is the normal way to go (have seen Debian to require .conf in other places and I guess this could be the case for something below apt.conf.d  as well at some point)
>

On my ubuntu boxes all files in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ are without a 
suffix. So assumed this was the way to do it.