Re: Naive newbie question [Re: Debian got too fat?]
On Mon 16 Jul 2018 at 07:15:25 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 07/16/2018 05:14 AM, Darac Marjal wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 10:57:32AM +0900, 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.
> >
> > Yes, but in that case installing one of those packages will install
> > lsb-base automatically. Personally, I don't see any reason for the
> > average user to /manually/ install any part of LSB.
>
> That raises a general question of installer priorities - is it installed by
> default. I need to go re-read installer documentation.
Reading the output of
apt show lsb-base
is sufficient to answer your question.
--
Brian.
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