Re: Problems with custom install of MATE
rowlett@cloud85.net
>Let's press reset a little.
>For reasons not directly tied to Debian, I'm no longer purchasing DVD
>sets on any media.
>I am still constrained by a low data cap.
>My system installs *will* continue to use "--no-install-recommends":
> 1. It conserves limited resource [i.e. data cap]
> 2. It reduces workspace clutter. What constitutes "clutter" is strongly
> influenced by resource constrained systems I used in 60's and 70's.
> It is now largely an aesthetic judgement.
That's fair enough - it's your call on your own systems, of
course. But could you *please* at least in future check for missing
recommends that might be causing issues before mailing debian-user to
complain about them?
It's easy enough to do, and saves wasting the time of everybody on the
list when there's an obvious solution...
--
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
"We're the technical experts. We were hired so that management could
ignore our recommendations and tell us how to do our jobs." -- Mike Andrews
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