Hi. On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 02:43:18PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 07:08:34AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > [...] > > > But it sheds light on this thread's original subject line. > > It listed several packages [e.g. speech-dispatcher] for which I have > > no apparent need. It will be educational to search out why they were > > installed. [...] > > I like "aptitude why" for this.
In this particular case the result of 'aptitude why' is misleading, to say the least: $ aptitude why speech-dispatcher i grub2 Depends grub-common (= 2.02~beta3-5) i A grub-common Suggests desktop-base (>= 4.0.6) i A desktop-base Suggests gnome | kde-standard | xfce4 | wmaker p gnome Depends gnome-orca (>= 3.22) p gnome-orca Depends speech-dispatcher (>= 0.8) Reco
