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. Antony. -- Tinned food was developed for the British Navy in 1813. The tin opener was not invented until 1858. Please reply to the list; please *don't* CC me. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng