On 1/6/22 4:48 PM, Antony Stone wrote:
On Thursday 06 January 2022 at 22:30:58, Ken Dibble wrote:
Why is xdg-desktop-portal in a fresh install of Chimaera?
I have a Chimaera machine here, freshly installed, without any graphical
desktop environment - just a command-line network server - and xdg-desktop-
portal is not installed.
It can be safely uninstalled, as it no devuan packages in the base
install require it,
They may not REQUIRE it, but I wonder whether you are allowing packages to
install RECOMMENDS as well?
Try "aptitude why xdg-desktop-portal" and see whether something you do want to
have on your machine has simply Recommended xdg-desktop-portal, and you ended
up with it because you haven't told apt or aptitude not to do that sort of
thing without your permission.
I always put two files into /etc/apt/apt.conf.d before allowing much software
to be installed:
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/norecommendationsplease
APT::Install-Recommends "false";
APT::Get::Install-Recommends "false";
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/nosuggestionsplease
APT::Install-Suggests "false";
APT::Get::Install-Suggests "false";
That way nothing gets installed unless I explicitly ask for it, or it's
essential for something I asked for.
Antony.
Thank you. The machine in question had a gui and it probably got pulled
in with
a suggestion.
I was not aware of the apt configurability, so I got to learn something
for free (except for your time).
Thanks again.
Ken
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