On 07/15/2018 08:57 PM, John Crawley wrote:
On 2018-07-16 04:33, Richard Owlett wrote:Can I a Debian user opt to not install "LSB" without ill effects?Some ...er, many Debian packages depend on lsb-base. 'apt-cache rdepends lsb-base' for a long list.
Interesting.But it answers too broad a question - it refers to the universe of Debian packages. [~840 hits on my machine]
A more informative {for my purposes} is:
'apt-cache --installed rdepends lsb-base'
It refers to my galaxy of Debian packages. [~40 hits on my machine]
But it sheds light on this thread's original subject line.
It listed several packages [e.g. speech-dispatcher] for which I have no
apparent need. It will be educational to search out why they were
installed. I have an ongoing educational project of creating an
extremely minimalist Debian subset which would my ADL requirements. {If
you are a physical therapist I mean that ADL ;}