On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 06:31:16AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 06/17/2020 06:12 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > >On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 04:53:45AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > >>On 06/17/2020 03:34 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > >>>[snip] > >>> > >>>A couple of those led me to disable recommends completely. It seems > >>>I'm a freak monster or sometning ;-@ > >>> > >> > >>Is there a way to totally disable recommends when installing Debian? > >>I wish to set up a machine for experimenting to find out what I > >>really want. Long long term I am considering using debootstrap to > >>install a extremely customized system. > > > >I have this in the file /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/95no-recommends: > > > > APT::Install-Recommends no: > > > > If I understand correctly, I need to add > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/95no-recommends to the ISO of the installer's DVD1.
When doing debootstrap, I usually tweak /etc/apt after having set up the base system and before installing packages (other things which go there are, e.g. the setup of an apt proxy/cache). Either manually, when tinkering or via a script. Cheers -- t
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