Thu, 6 Jan 2022 22:48:16 +0100 - Antony Stone
<Antony.Stone@???>:

> On Thursday 06 January 2022 at 22:30:58, Ken Dibble wrote:
>
> > Why is xdg-desktop-portal in a fresh install of Chimaera?
>
> I have a Chimaera machine here, freshly installed, without any graphical
> desktop environment - just a command-line network server - and
> xdg-desktop- portal is not installed.
>
> > It can be safely uninstalled, as it no devuan packages in the base
> > install require it,
>
> They may not REQUIRE it, but I wonder whether you are allowing packages
> to install RECOMMENDS as well?
>
> Try "aptitude why xdg-desktop-portal" and see whether something you do
> want to have on your machine has simply Recommended xdg-desktop-portal,
> and you ended up with it because you haven't told apt or aptitude not to
> do that sort of thing without your permission.
>
> I always put two files into /etc/apt/apt.conf.d before allowing much
> software to be installed:
>
> /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/norecommendationsplease
> APT::Install-Recommends "false";
> APT::Get::Install-Recommends "false";
>
> /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/nosuggestionsplease
> APT::Install-Suggests "false";
> APT::Get::Install-Suggests "false";
>
> That way nothing gets installed unless I explicitly ask for it, or it's
> essential for something I asked for.

Hi

Please can anyone suggest a way to list all the packages installed as
recommended but without a real dependency?

I would be curious to see how I have my system from this point of view ...


Regards
al3xu5

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