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Re: A more minimal task-*-desktop

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Federico Kircheis wrote: 
> On 30/06/2025 7:11 pm, Michael Paoli wrote:
> And this also holds for metapackages like lxqt.
> It still installs a lot of things, so down to lxqt-core.
> It still installs some things I've noticed and to not want, so I need to
> inspect which packages are installed, transitive dependencies included..
> 
> I hoped it would have been possible to exlucde dependencies, for examle by
> prefixing them with "-"; for example:
> 
> apt install lxqt -meteo-qt


You can postfix "-" to get that behavior.

apt install lxqt meteo-qt-

Also, do you know that the -s switch to apt install will tell
you the whole plan without retrieving or installing the packages?

-dsr-

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A more minimal task-*-desktop Federico Kircheis <federico@kircheis.it> - 2025-06-29 14:50 +0200
  Re: A more minimal task-*-desktop Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2025-06-30 16:10 +0200
    Re: A more minimal task-*-desktop Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net> - 2025-06-30 16:10 +0200
  Re: A more minimal task-*-desktop Greg <curtyshoo@gmail.com> - 2025-06-30 18:20 +0200
  Re: A more minimal task-*-desktop Michael Paoli <michael.paoli@berkeley.edu> - 2025-06-30 19:20 +0200
    Re: A more minimal task-*-desktop Federico Kircheis <federico@kircheis.it> - 2025-07-03 16:40 +0200
      Re: A more minimal task-*-desktop Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2025-07-03 17:50 +0200
        Re: A more minimal task-*-desktop Federico Kircheis <federico@kircheis.it> - 2025-07-03 18:20 +0200
          Re: A more minimal task-*-desktop Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2025-07-03 20:10 +0200
          Re: A more minimal task-*-desktop Federico Kircheis <federico@kircheis.it> - 2025-07-04 07:10 +0200
            Re: A more minimal task-*-desktop <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2025-07-04 07:30 +0200
            Re: A more minimal task-*-desktop Federico Kircheis <federico@kircheis.it> - 2025-07-04 23:10 +0200
              Re: A more minimal task-*-desktop Greg <curtyshoo@gmail.com> - 2025-07-05 15:30 +0200
              Re: A more minimal task-*-desktop Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2025-07-05 15:40 +0200
      Re: A more minimal task-*-desktop Greg <curtyshoo@gmail.com> - 2025-07-03 18:00 +0200
      Re: A more minimal task-*-desktop Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2025-07-04 03:30 +0200

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