On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 09:12:47PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > Running aptitude --without-recommends sidestepped the problem, but now > you might be missing some Gnome features which are implemented by other > recommended packages. You could run aptitude in interactive mode, press > "l" to limit the package view and enter > > !~i~Rrecommends:~i > > as the criterion. This will limit the display to packages which are not > installed even though they are recommended by packages which are > installed. Then you can go over this list, check the descriptions and > decide if you need any of these recommended packages.
Hhhm, interesting: ~$ aptitude search '!~i~Rrecommends:~i' | wc -l 299 There's no obvious functionality missing, but maybe I should have a look through that list (though I don't consider myself a regular user). Anyway, thanks Florian for another lesson of aptitude's power. A copy of your mail goes to the Good_to_know folder :) Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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