On Fri, 04 Mar 2016, 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`? > > I must have some big gap or error in my understanding of Debian > package management and/or how `apt-get` works... > > What else do I have to do to avoid having all these suggested packages > somehow get through to my system?
My system doesn't install "Suggests" by default. Never has. Only true dependencies. How did you install your initial minimal system? I started with just the Basic Install, terminal and networking from a Wheezy 64-bit Netinstall CD (Jessie didn't exist), then added piece by piece to end up with a lean X and window manager system. Is that what you basically did? B