Le Tue, Nov 05, 2024 at 05:35:59PM -0600, Aaron Rainbolt a écrit : > Hello, and thanks for your time. > > I've been a Debian user and contributor for a while, and have noticed a > rather frustrating issue that I'm interested in potentially > contributing code to fix. The issue is what I call "Recommended bloat", > which in short is what happens when you install a package with all of > its recommended packages, and end up with a whole lot of stuff installed > that you don't want and that the package you actually wanted probably > didn't even need.
A proposal I made was an option for apt to handle Recommends non recursively. That is if A Recommends B and B Recommends C, apt-get install A --no-transitive-recommends would install B but not C. Cheers, Bill.
