Thu, 6 Jan 2022 22:48:16 +0100 - Antony Stone <antony.st...@devuan.open.source.it>:
> 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. Hi Please can anyone suggest a way to list all the packages installed as recommended but without a real dependency? I would be curious to see how I have my system from this point of view ... Regards al3xu5 -- Say NO to copyright, patents, trademarks and industrial design restrictions! ____________________________________________________________________________ Public GPG/PGP key: 8FC2 3121 2803 86E9 F7D8 B624 DA50 835B 2624 A36B
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