-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Mar 04, 2016 at 09:59:54AM -0500, Kynn Jones wrote: > On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 11:03 AM, Stefan Monnier > <monn...@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote: > >> Find a file somehow belonging to the font you are interested in. > >> Do "dpkg -L <file name with path>" on it. > > ^^ > > -S > > Thank you, that is a useful tool. > > When I ran `dpkg -S` over all the files reported by `fc-list`, and > then ran `aptitude why` on the reported packages, I discovered that > most of the superfluous fonts in my system came through packages that > were only suggested by other packages. > > In fact, in many cases, the font-containing package is at the end of a > chain of suggests, where each link in the chain is a suggests of the > previous link. > > IOW, I have a ton of junk in my system, not just superfluous fonts. > > How can this be, given that I never use the `--install-suggests` flag > when I run `apt-get install`, and I don't have `Item: > APT::Install-Suggests` in my `/etc/apt/apt.conf`?
Hm. Try "apt-config dump | grep -i suggests" -- it must be coming from somewhere? regards - -- t -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlbZnUEACgkQBcgs9XrR2kZ9PgCfQdgVIIr72sGKNlASAXzEb3c8 fIgAn1wiQm8MSOrlB5B7+VFDuPAqxqvE =gHOF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
