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| From | Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: Naive newbie question [Re: Debian got too fat?] |
| Date | 2018-07-16 19:30 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <wcftU-6qZ-1@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
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On 07/16/2018 08:12 AM, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 02:43:18PM +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 07:08:34AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: >> >> [...] >> >>> But it sheds light on this thread's original subject line. >>> It listed several packages [e.g. speech-dispatcher] for which I have >>> no apparent need. It will be educational to search out why they were >>> installed. [...] >> >> I like "aptitude why" for this. > > In this particular case the result of 'aptitude why' is misleading, to > say the least: > > $ aptitude why speech-dispatcher > i grub2 Depends grub-common (= 2.02~beta3-5) > i A grub-common Suggests desktop-base (>= 4.0.6) > i A desktop-base Suggests gnome | kde-standard | xfce4 | wmaker > p gnome Depends gnome-orca (>= 3.22) > p gnome-orca Depends speech-dispatcher (>= 0.8) I get a list in a different format: > richard@debian-jan13:~$ aptitude why speech-dispatcher > i task-mate-desktop Recommends gnome-orca > i A gnome-orca Depends speech-dispatcher (>= 0.8) Can you suggest why? I'm running the i386 flavor of Debian 9.
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Re: Debian got too fat? Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2018-07-15 13:50 +0200
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Re: Naive newbie question [Re: Debian got too fat?] Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2018-07-15 22:10 +0200
Re: Naive newbie question [Re: Debian got too fat?] Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2018-07-17 04:00 +0200
Re: Naive newbie question [Re: Debian got too fat?] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-07-15 23:00 +0200
Re: Naive newbie question [Re: Debian got too fat?] John Crawley <john@bunsenlabs.org> - 2018-07-16 04:00 +0200
Re: Naive newbie question [Re: Debian got too fat?] Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2018-07-16 12:20 +0200
Re: Naive newbie question [Re: Debian got too fat?] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-07-16 14:20 +0200
Re: Naive newbie question [Re: Debian got too fat?] Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-07-16 16:00 +0200
Re: Naive newbie question [Re: Debian got too fat?] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-07-16 14:10 +0200
Re: Naive newbie question [Re: Debian got too fat?] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-07-16 14:50 +0200
Re: Naive newbie question [Re: Debian got too fat?] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-07-16 15:10 +0200
Re: Naive newbie question [Re: Debian got too fat?] Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2018-07-16 15:20 +0200
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Re: Naive newbie question [Re: Debian got too fat?] Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-07-16 20:10 +0200
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Re: Differences between installs (was: Naive newbie question [Re: Debian got too fat?]) Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-07-18 10:30 +0200
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