On 2025-07-03, Federico Kircheis <feder...@kircheis.it> wrote: > > I hoped it would have been possible to exlucde dependencies, for examle > by prefixing them with "-"; for example: > > apt install lxqt -meteo-qt >
I'm only aware of '--no-install-recommends' as far as apt goes. In aptitude, you can press n or : and mark meteo-qt as forbidden, and it will try an alternative solution (untested). Of course, with a 100 terabyte hard disk, it can seem rather silly.