David Christensen <dpchr...@holgerdanske.com> writes: > On 7/12/19 4:03 AM, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: >> hi, >> when installing some packages (chromiun for example), I get a lot of >> useless languages (task-marathi-desktop task-nepali-desktop ...) >> Is there a way to get rid of them? >> >> best regards, > > I added the following line to my root .profile to prevent apt-get from > downloading and installing 'recommended' packages; > > alias apt-get='apt-get --no-install-recommends'
There is currently a lengthy thread discussing why this is a bad idea with the subject "Re: Don't disable recoomends by default" Even if it were a good idea, the way to do it would be in the apt configuration, not by aliasing a command.
