On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 18:58:36 +0200
Erwan David <erwan@rail.eu.org> wrote:
However, I have noticed a tendency for things to be installed or
started that open new ports, and it's easy to overlook them. Aptitude
in particular will install extra packages that you don't need or want.
For this, first thing is to disable automatic installation of
recommended packages, it is much more easy to manage then.
True, but the downside is that you're going to experience random,
confusing absences of functionality in various applications, and it can
sometimes be difficult to figure out why ...