-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 03:26:55PM -0500, Haines Brown wrote:
[...] > Aptitude install does not list it as a requirement, but when I go to > install either pulseaudio or pavucontrol it says the following NEW > packages will be installed [...] Perhaps your apt is installing recommended packages (instead of just required?) You can test it by giving the option --no-recommends to aptitude (short: -R). If you want to make this setting permanent, you add a file under /etc/apt/apt.conf.d (named, for example, no-preferences) wih a line APT::Install-Recommends no; regards - -- t -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlalPdsACgkQBcgs9XrR2kaOBQCfTAf2m5V3P1ghcORU2WZw75Zm AMQAnRcp9ec4sM4Z7A84P11VtXhG9YfM =SOaT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----