tomas@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > But Andy Smith wrote recently that "installing without recommends is not a supported use > > case" and I believe him. > > FWIW, I do install with no-recommends in general: > > tomas@trotzki:~$ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/95no-recommends > APT::Install-Recommends no; > > "Not supported" seemed a bit strong to me: what does mean "not > supported" in a non-commercial distro, anyway? > > I'd prefer to say: not recommended for newbies. The problem with > you is that you want to be a newbie and not a newbie at the same > time. > > This doesn't work :) Oh, I'm a rare kind of newbie. I have 25 years of FreeBSD experience and about 10 years of Solaris experience. However I still consider myself a newbie in Linux as I work with it only since 2020 and in rather limited ways. > > In the concrete case: some newbie would expect to have the GUI > tools installed when (s)he installs KVM. Some other not. Since > APT doesn't (yet) support mind reading (alas, the proprietary > drivers and that), the GUI tools are recommended. That's what documentation is for! If a newbie wants an installation without GUI, they look for a how-to about headless installation. It's a pity I came across https://wiki.debian.org/KVM only after I had already posted to the list. I think this page covers my case. I really with that the first reply to my question had been a link to this page, it could have saved a lot of electrons and carbon. > > That's what "recommends" is for. You can switch it off, even > in general (see above), but then you'll have to be prepared to > look into package descriptions and come up yourself with "oh, > perhaps I want to install that, too". Yes, sure. -- Victor Sudakov VAS4-RIPE http://vas.tomsk.ru/ 2:5005/49@fidonet
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