On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 04:12:57PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > I would like to stop this overkill because it is a pure waste of > bandwidth but I have not even an idea why this happens, because > I do not find these packages in the list of Recommens. Did I > missed something? I noticed this as well and sent a mail about it to the Tex list[0] but Riku's blog post[1] was a good hint. After turning off automatic installation of Recommends, the packages are no longer installed. I didn't take the time to look into what was Recommending the packages, though. James [0] - http://lists.debian.org/debian-tex-maint/2007/11/msg00006.html [1] - http://nchip.livejournal.com/11175.html -- GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <jamessan@debian.org>
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature