On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 08:24:24PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 09:31:15PM -0400, "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:03:59PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 02:40:45AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > > > > If you want less stuff installed, then you can tell aptitude not to > > > > install 'recommends', > > > > > > If a package is listed as a recommends and you consider it should only > > > be a suggests it is considered a bug. > > > > Yes but just because its recommended, things still work just fine. I > > have all kinds of packages that don't have all the cruft that they > > recommend. > > > > If you have a simple one-liner that will provide you with a list of the > > packages which are recommended by installed packages but which aren't > > themselves insalled, let me know. I'll run it and send you the results. > > aptitude search '~Rrecommends:~i!~i' > > or to ignore recommendations that are satisfied (e.g., ORs) > > aptitude search '~RBrecommends:~i'
I've attached the output of this command; its fairly long. As examples, something depended on myspell (I use aspell) and myspell recommends the dictionaries for every language on the planet. I don't use a DTE but icewm, however something thinks I need hal and pmount. Thanks, Doug.
p akregator - RSS feed aggregator for KDE p belocs-locales-data - base files for localization p buffer - Buffering/reblocking program for tape back p ca-certificates - Common CA Certificates PEM files p dvipdfmx - A DVI to PDF translator with CJK support p esound-clients - Enlightened Sound Daemon - clients p feynmf - set of LaTeX macros for creating Feynman d p gdb - The GNU Debugger p hal - Hardware Abstraction Layer p hfsutils - Tools for reading and writing Macintosh vo p jackd - JACK Audio Connection Kit (server and exam p kamera - digital camera io_slave for Konqueror p kdemultimedia-kio-plugins - enables the browsing of audio CDs under Ko p kdeprint - print system for KDE p kmail - KDE Email client p kooka - scanner program for KDE p laptop-detect - attempt to detect a laptop p latex-beamer - LaTeX class to produce presentations p latex-xcolor - Easy driver-independent TeX class for colo p libarts1-akode - akode plugin for aRts p libatk1.0-data - Common files for the ATK accessibility too p libglib2.0-data - Common files for GLib library p libhtml-format-perl - Format HTML syntax trees p libmail-sendmail-perl - Send email from a perl script p libmailtools-perl - Manipulate email in perl programs p libmudflap0-dev - GCC mudflap support libraries (development p libparse-debianchangelog-perl - parse Debian changelogs and output them in p libtasn1-3-bin - Manage ASN.1 structures (binaries) p locales - GNU C Library: National Language (locale) p locales-all - GNU C Library: Precompiled locale data p myspell-bg - The Bulgarian dictionary for myspell p myspell-ca - Catalan dictionary for myspell p myspell-cs-cz - Czech dictionary for myspell p myspell-da - The Comprehensive Danish Dictionary (DSDO) p myspell-de-at - Austrian (German) dictionary for myspell p myspell-de-ch - Swiss (German) dictionary for myspell p myspell-de-de - German dictionary for myspell p myspell-de-de-oldspell - German dictionary for myspell (old orthogr v myspell-dictionary - p myspell-en-au - English_australian dictionary for myspell p myspell-en-gb - English_british dictionary for myspell p myspell-en-us - English_american dictionary for myspell p myspell-eo - Esperanto dictionary for myspell p myspell-es - Spanish dictionary for myspell p myspell-et - Estonian dictionary for MySpell p myspell-fi - The Finnish dictionary for myspell p myspell-fo - The Faroese dictionary for myspell p myspell-fr - The French dictionary for myspell (Hydro-Q p myspell-fr-gut - The French dictionary for myspell (GUTenbe p myspell-ga - An Irish (Gaeilge) dictionary for OpenOffi p myspell-gd - Scots Gaelic dictionary for myspell p myspell-gl-es - Galician dictionary for myspell p myspell-gv - Manx Gaelic dictionary for myspell p myspell-he - Hebrew dictionary for myspell p myspell-hr - Croatian dictionary for myspell p myspell-hu - The Hungarian dictionary for myspell p myspell-it - Italian dictionary for myspell p myspell-ku - Kurdish (Kurmanji) dictionary for myspell p myspell-lt - myspell dictionary for Lithuanian (LT) p myspell-lv - Latvian MySpell dictionary p myspell-nl - Dutch dictionary for myspell p myspell-nn - Norwegian nynorsk dictionary for myspell p myspell-pl - The Polish dictionary for myspell p myspell-pt-br - Brazilian Portuguese dictionary for myspel p myspell-pt-pt - European Portuguese dictionary for myspell p myspell-ru - Russian dictionary for MySpell p myspell-sk - The Slovak dictionary for myspell p myspell-sv-se - Swedish (SE) dictionary for myspell p myspell-sw - Swahili dictionary for myspell p myspell-th - Thai dictionary for myspell p myspell-uk - Ukrainian dictionary for myspell p ncompress - Original Lempel-Ziv compress/uncompress pr p notification-daemon - a daemon that displays passive pop-up noti p nvidia-kernel-source - NVIDIA binary kernel module source p p7zip-full - 7z and 7za file archivers with high compre p perl-doc - Perl documentation p perl-suid - Runs setuid Perl scripts p pgf - TeX Portable Graphic Format p pmount - mount removable devices as normal user p prosper - LaTeX class for writing transparencies p sane-utils - API library for scanners -- utilities p syslinux - Bootloader for Linux/i386 using MS-DOS flo p tetex-base - Basic TeX input files of teTeX p tetex-bin - The teTeX programs p texpower - Macros for creating professional presentat p tipa - System for processing phonetic symbols in p toilet - display large colourful characters in text p vcdimager - A VideoCD (VCD) image mastering and rippin p xml-core - XML infrastructure and XML catalog file su p xresprobe - X Resolution Probe p zip - Archiver for .zip files p zoo - manipulate zoo archives