David, couple of points ... I could be wrong here because I not an IT guy, but, in the context of your question, something can be an "absolute" dependency or a "strong" dependency (aka recommend).
If something is an absolute dependency, you can't easily remove it without removing the program that caused it to be pulled in (I think that's called the reverse depend). So, in your case, if you've managed to remove zeitgeist without pain I feel zeitgeist came in as a recommend and not as an absolute dependency. Because you've said you'd like to "know exactly what is installed and what it does", I suggest you look at: http://packages.ubuntu.com/saucy/lubuntu-desktop. That should tell you what is installed in a pure Lubuntu. Of course, you can replace saucy with raring or precise or whatever to go back in time or you could change lubuntu to ubuntu or xubuntu to find out more about those desktop environments. Then, you could also familiarize yourself with apt-cache show package_name and apt-cache showpkg package_name to know more about specific packages and what their depends and reverse depends are. Another thing I do is to run a simulated apt-get install by using the -s flag: I can run apt-get install -s package_name to get a rather decent idea of what will be installed on **my** system were I to do an actual install rather than a simulation. Obviously, the output of apt-get install -s package_name will depend on what you already have on **your** system. On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 11:57 PM, David Yentzen <dbyent...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for the input. I will have to go back and review where I picked it > up as a dependency. Regardless at this point, I have first disabled it and > then removed it without appearing to affect function. > Thanks to you both for letting me know that it is not apart of the default > install, this gives me a starting point. I like, very much, to know exactly > what is installed and what it does. > >
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