Typically with judicious use of "--without-recommends", I think.
Why is a little single-use Debian LAMP server VM I have installing freaking gnome-icon-theme (and GTK, and even more X nonsense)?! How do all these Debian/Ubuntu server users deal with this? Seriously, this is madness.
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what version of ubuntu? i have an ubuntu server in front of my right now and dpkg —list doesn’t show anything gnome or gtk related.
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sorry to be *that* twitter guy but i am genuinely curious
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Why is this still not the default?
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I find it immensely frustrating myself, but I think the typical argument is something along the lines of not wanting users to be missing possibly-needed functionality.
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It’s the year for the desktop on Linux. We’ve had it backwards all along.
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APT::Install-Recommends "0"; APT::Install-Suggests "0"; in /etc/apt/apt.conf does not help?
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The fact that installing recommended and suggested packages is on-by-default is still less maddening than the automatic startup of services upon installation.
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