Re: apt-get question..

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" <dtutty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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

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