Re: useless languages

[Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu>]

David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> writes:

> On 7/12/19 4:03 AM, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
>> hi,
>> when installing some packages (chromiun for example), I get a lot of
>> useless languages (task-marathi-desktop task-nepali-desktop ...)
>> Is there a way to get rid of them?
>>
>> best regards,
>
> I added the following line to my root .profile to prevent apt-get from
> downloading and installing 'recommended' packages;
>
>     alias apt-get='apt-get --no-install-recommends'

There is currently a lengthy thread discussing why this is a bad idea
with the subject "Re: Don't disable recoomends by default"
Even if it were a good idea, the way to do it would be in the
apt configuration, not by aliasing a command.