On 22/07/12 19:29, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 22 iul 12, 18:58:36, Erwan David wrote: >>> However, I have noticed a tendency for things to be installed or >>> started that open new ports, and it's easy to overlook them. Aptitude >>> in particular will install extra packages that you don't need or want. >> For this, first thing is to disable automatic installation of >> recommended packages, it is much more easy to manage then. > I would not hurry to do this unless the machine in question is really > space constrained (e.g. I have an install on a 2 GB USB stick). Since > apt-get installs recommends by default as well Maintainers have started > moving stuff from Depends to Recommends (to allow special use cases and > so). > > If you disable Recommends you should understand that is your > responsibility for any missing functionality that may be important for > you. > Yes, indeed. But I've seen too many packages where recommends leeds to installing full gnome where I do not want it, that I prefer having more control (and thus more responsibility).
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