On Mon 16 Jul 2018 at 07:15:25 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 07/16/2018 05:14 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 10:57:32AM +0900, John Crawley wrote: > > > On 2018-07-16 04:33, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > Can I a Debian user opt to not install "LSB" without ill effects? > > > > > > Some ...er, many Debian packages depend on lsb-base. > > > 'apt-cache rdepends lsb-base' for a long list. > > > > Yes, but in that case installing one of those packages will install > > lsb-base automatically. Personally, I don't see any reason for the > > average user to /manually/ install any part of LSB. > > That raises a general question of installer priorities - is it installed by > default. I need to go re-read installer documentation.
Reading the output of apt show lsb-base is sufficient to answer your question. -- Brian.
