Patrick Wiseman: > On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Jape Person <jap...@comcast.net> wrote: >> >> Forgive the facetious thread title, please. I just about got knocked out of >> my >> socks this morning when I ran my daily upgrade checks in aptitude. >> >> I run Debian testing with Xfce, and I'd like to keep it that way. > > Me, too.
I know it is nitpicking and slightly beside the point, but still: only
because apt wants to install (parts of) Gnome, it doesn't force you to
run it.
Sure, you should be able to install exactly what you want and nothing
more, but even a few hundred megabytes don't really need to bother you
on a desktop system less than ten years old. Even if you install KDE,
Gnome, Xfce and every other desktop system you can think of, the Debian
installation does not necessarily use more than, say, 10-12GB.
I don't even use one of the big desktop environments but like to have at
least Gnome and Xfce installed, just in case someone else wants to use
my computer. (I usually use the „awesome“ window manager which is
awkward to use for the uninitiated).
> […] The way I avoid what you saw this
> morning is to tell aptitude NOT to install by default packages
> recommended by other packages. That seems to prevent a lot of
> unnecessary installations. So I recommend setting that option in
> aptitude! You always have the option, after scanning what's
> recommended, to install what you want.
ACK, I do that too. From my /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/local:
APT {
Install-Recommends "false";
}
Aptitude {
Recommends-Important "false";
Keep-Recommends "true";
Keep-Suggests "true";
}
J.
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