Re: What else must I do to avoid installing "suggests"? Was: How to get a "minimal font set"?

[Joel Roth <joelz@pobox.com>]

On Fri, Mar 04, 2016 at 04:59:03PM -0800, David Christensen wrote:
> On 03/04/2016 06:59 AM, Kynn Jones wrote:
> >IOW, I have a ton of junk in my system, not just superfluous fonts.
> >
> >How can this be, given that I never use the `--install-suggests` flag
> >when I run `apt-get install`, and I don't have `Item:
> >APT::Install-Suggests` in my `/etc/apt/apt.conf`?
> >
> >I must have some big gap or error in my understanding of Debian
> >package management and/or how `apt-get` works...
> >
> >What else do I have to do to avoid having all these suggested packages
> >somehow get through to my system?
> 
> I use apt-get.  About a year ago I discovered that installing a certain
> package pulled in 100's of MB of stuff that I didn't want or need.  My
> solution was to write a Perl wrapper script that invokes 'apt-get install'
> with the '--no-install-recommends' option.

Hi,

cat /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/40nosuggestrecommends 
Apt::Install-Suggests false;
Apt::Install-Recommends false;
> 
> HTH,
> 
> David
> 

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Joel Roth