Re: lightweight wifi UI (Was: Insidious systemd)

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>]

On 2019-05-29 20:47:06 +0300, Reco wrote:
> 	Hi.
> 
> On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 05:39:05PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > On 2019-05-28 11:18:39 -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote:
> > > On Tue, 28 May 2019 20:39:53 +0300
> > > Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 09:49:45AM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote:
> > > > > On Tue, 28 May 2019 18:56:44 +0300
> > > > > Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> wrote:
> > > > > apt/apt-get already by default set NOT to install Recommends, only
> > > > > dependencies.  And I check before installing anything just to be sure.  
> > > > 
> > > > Yet your apt tries to install gksu, and mine does not.
> > > 
> > > I'll check.  It could be a dependency of a wicd dependency.
> > 
> > No, there isn't any dependency, even recursively:
> > 
> > ypig:~> apt install -s wicd
> > [...]
> > The following additional packages will be installed:
> >   python-glade2 python-notify python-wicd rfkill wicd-daemon wicd-gtk
> >   wireless-tools
> > [...]
> 
> $ apt-cache show wicd-gtk | grep Recommends
> Recommends: gksu, python-notify
> 
> Things might be different in buster or sid, of course. This is stretch.

Yes, this has changed:

ypig:~> apt-cache show wicd-gtk | grep Recommends
Recommends: policykit-1 | menu | kde-runtime, python-notify
Recommends: gksu, python-notify

But anyway, this was just a Recommends, and the OP had apt configured
not to install Recommends by default.

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