On Fri 04 Jul 2025 at 07:04:32 (+0200), Federico Kircheis wrote: > Excluding two or three packages is much easier, and the suggested > approach of appending a - works perfectly if the package was not > installed.
In which case, I think you should install the equivs package (it's in every suite) and use it to build your own packages called libreoffice, etc. You still need to use one of -s, --simulate, --just-print, --dry-run, --recon, --no-act, in order to see just which package equivalents you need to build. Then, in future, you install all your equivalents before you install the DE itself, and APT/dpkg will see that those _recommendations_ are already installed. But repeat the -s run after installing your first set of equivalents in case there are any second-order recommendations. Cheers, David.
