Re: Naive newbie question [Re: Debian got too fat?]
Hi.
On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 02:43:18PM +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 07:08:34AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > 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 like "aptitude why" for this.
In this particular case the result of 'aptitude why' is misleading, to
say the least:
$ aptitude why speech-dispatcher
i grub2 Depends grub-common (= 2.02~beta3-5)
i A grub-common Suggests desktop-base (>= 4.0.6)
i A desktop-base Suggests gnome | kde-standard | xfce4 | wmaker
p gnome Depends gnome-orca (>= 3.22)
p gnome-orca Depends speech-dispatcher (>= 0.8)
Reco
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