On Fri, Mar 04, 2016 at 04:59:03PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: > On 03/04/2016 06:59 AM, Kynn Jones wrote: > >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? > > I use apt-get. About a year ago I discovered that installing a certain > package pulled in 100's of MB of stuff that I didn't want or need. My > solution was to write a Perl wrapper script that invokes 'apt-get install' > with the '--no-install-recommends' option.
Hi, cat /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/40nosuggestrecommends Apt::Install-Suggests false; Apt::Install-Recommends false; > > HTH, > > David > -- Joel Roth
