Re: A more minimal task-*-desktop
Federico Kircheis wrote:
> On 30/06/2025 7:11 pm, Michael Paoli wrote:
> And this also holds for metapackages like lxqt.
> It still installs a lot of things, so down to lxqt-core.
> It still installs some things I've noticed and to not want, so I need to
> inspect which packages are installed, transitive dependencies included..
>
> I hoped it would have been possible to exlucde dependencies, for examle by
> prefixing them with "-"; for example:
>
> apt install lxqt -meteo-qt
You can postfix "-" to get that behavior.
apt install lxqt meteo-qt-
Also, do you know that the -s switch to apt install will tell
you the whole plan without retrieving or installing the packages?
-dsr-
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