On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 11:03 AM, Stefan Monnier <monn...@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote: >> Find a file somehow belonging to the font you are interested in. >> Do "dpkg -L <file name with path>" on it. > ^^ > -S
Thank you, that is a useful tool. When I ran `dpkg -S` over all the files reported by `fc-list`, and then ran `aptitude why` on the reported packages, I discovered that most of the superfluous fonts in my system came through packages that were only suggested by other packages. In fact, in many cases, the font-containing package is at the end of a chain of suggests, where each link in the chain is a suggests of the previous link. IOW, I have a ton of junk in my system, not just superfluous fonts. How can this be, given that I never use the `--install-suggests` flag when I run `apt-get install`, and I don't have `Item: APT::Install-Suggests` in my `/etc/apt/apt.conf`? I must have some big gap or error in my understanding of Debian package management and/or how `apt-get` works... What else do I have to do to avoid having all these suggested packages somehow get through to my system? Thanks in advance! kj
