[Fri, 4 Mar 2016 09:59:54 -0500] Kynn Jones <kynnjo@gmail.com> wrote: [...] > When I ran `dpkg -S` over all the files reported by `fc-list`, and > then ran `aptitude why` on the reported packages, I discovered that > most of the superfluous fonts in my system came through packages that > were only suggested by other packages. > > In fact, in many cases, the font-containing package is at the end of a > chain of suggests, where each link in the chain is a suggests of the > previous link. [...] I suggest you to try to uninstall some of the superflous packages. Because whenever I found some chain of suggests, it always had one of these reasons: 1. Aptitude did not report a stronger dependency. Often, a package is suggested by one but also recommended by another package. IIRC, when one tries to uninstall the package, Aptitude reports that some ``Recommends''-dependencies will be broken. 2. Sometimes, packages are pulled in as dependencies for one package and not removed when you uninstall the package because of ``Suggests''. This could probably be resolved with `deborphan`. HTH Linux-Fan -- http://masysma.lima-city.de/
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