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>Let's press reset a little.
>For reasons not directly tied to Debian, I'm no longer purchasing DVD
>sets on any media.
>I am still constrained by a low data cap.
>My system installs *will* continue to use "--no-install-recommends":
> 1. It conserves limited resource [i.e. dat
Let's press reset a little.
For reasons not directly tied to Debian, I'm no longer purchasing DVD
sets on any media.
I am still constrained by a low data cap.
My system installs *will* continue to use "--no-install-recommends":
1. It conserves limited resource [i.e. data cap]
2. It reduces wor
On Tue 08 Mar 2022 at 15:11:28 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 03/08/2022 12:49 PM, Brian wrote:
> > On Tue 08 Mar 2022 at 07:11:51 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
> >
> > > As I have a very low data cap and wish to avoid some "recommended"
> > > components I have done:
> >
> > Low data caps alwa
On Mar 08, 2022, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > Before I retired I spent decades in customer and engineering support.
> > Became familiar clashing desires and corner cases.
> > I wasn't looking at X needing a DM, but rather that if the DE {MATE in my
> > case} was going to be useful it had to start [pre
On 03/08/2022 03:10 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
Before I retired I spent decades in customer and engineering support.
Became familiar clashing desires and corner cases.
I wasn't looking at X needing a DM, but rather that if the DE {MATE in my
case} was going to be useful it had to start [preferably
On 03/08/2022 12:49 PM, Brian wrote:
On Tue 08 Mar 2022 at 07:11:51 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
As I have a very low data cap and wish to avoid some "recommended"
components I have done:
Low data caps always tug at the heartstrings, but avoiding Recommends:
can be a recipe for disaster (for
On 03/08/2022 10:45 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Tue, Mar 08, 2022 at 08:40:02AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
[...]
"apt-get --no-install-recommends install lightdm" solved #1 and #2.
Does that demonstrate a dependency bug?
Most definitely not. X doesn't need the DM to run. Actually there
On Tue 08 Mar 2022 at 07:11:51 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
> As I have a very low data cap and wish to avoid some "recommended"
> components I have done:
Low data caps always tug at the heartstrings, but avoiding Recommends:
can be a recipe for disaster (for you or us)).
My recollection is that
On Tue, 2022-03-08 at 15:54 +, Brian wrote:
> Users who install a package with "--no-install-recommends owe it to
> themselves to investigate the conssequences *prior* to committing to
> the action. Involving a communuty in the aftermath is little short
> of thoughtlessness and lack of preparat
On Tue, Mar 08, 2022 at 08:40:02AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
[...]
> "apt-get --no-install-recommends install lightdm" solved #1 and #2.
> Does that demonstrate a dependency bug?
Most definitely not. X doesn't need the DM to run. Actually there are
folks out there that want to start up in con
On Tue 08 Mar 2022 at 09:06:27 -0600, David Wright wrote:
> On Tue 08 Mar 2022 at 08:40:02 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote:
[..]
> > "apt-get --no-install-recommends install lightdm" solved #1 and #2.
> > Does that demonstrate a dependency bug?
>
> Last paragraph of:
> https://lists.debian.org/d
On 2022-03-08 15:50 UTC+0100, Richard Owlett wrote:
> I have SeaMonkey launched from "Internet" sub-menu of "Applications"
> menu. IIRC it was only a couple of mouse clicks to get it there.
If you don't have some Debian/Snap/Flatpak package from some source
available, I know no other way to i
On Tue 08 Mar 2022 at 08:40:02 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 03/08/2022 07:32 AM, Richmond wrote:
> > Richard Owlett writes:
> >
> > > As I have a very low data cap and wish to avoid some "recommended"
> > > components I have done:
> > > 1. a text mode install [including "standard utilities
On 03/08/2022 08:37 AM, Christian Britz wrote:
On 2022-03-08 14:11 UTC+0100, Richard Owlett wrote:
4. I'll be installing SeaMonkey but have forgotten how to have it appear
on appropriate Applications sub-menu.
As there is no Debian package for SeaMonkey, you will probably extract
the bi
On 03/08/2022 07:32 AM, Richmond wrote:
Richard Owlett writes:
As I have a very low data cap and wish to avoid some "recommended"
components I have done:
1. a text mode install [including "standard utilities"] using
debian-11.2.0-amd64-netinst.iso .
2. apt-get --no-install-recommends insta
On 2022-03-08 14:11 UTC+0100, Richard Owlett wrote:
> 4. I'll be installing SeaMonkey but have forgotten how to have it appear
> on appropriate Applications sub-menu.
As there is no Debian package for SeaMonkey, you will probably extract
the binaries from seamonkey-project.org somewhere. To
Richard Owlett writes:
> As I have a very low data cap and wish to avoid some "recommended"
> components I have done:
> 1. a text mode install [including "standard utilities"] using
>debian-11.2.0-amd64-netinst.iso .
> 2. apt-get --no-install-recommends install mate-desktop-environment
> 3. a
As I have a very low data cap and wish to avoid some "recommended"
components I have done:
1. a text mode install [including "standard utilities"] using
debian-11.2.0-amd64-netinst.iso .
2. apt-get --no-install-recommends install mate-desktop-environment
3. apt-get install xinit
4. apt-get --n
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