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Re:Life at 800 MHz by zh3 on Friday January 14, 2022 @10:32AM (#29935675)
> ...that seemingly simple programs need to pull a mind boggling amount of dependencies you really start to question the state of the software world

Recent jawdrop: 'apt-get install asciidoc' on a pi needs to pull 189 packages, will use 889Mb of additional disk space.

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Re:Life at 800 MHz by arthur6667 on Friday January 14, 2022 @10:38AM (#29935754)
Maybe you already know, but in case not or someone else needs this: try with --no-install-recommends, it skips a lot of bs.

I don't recall exactly what it was, but I remember installing something like a tiny library and it wanted to also install mysql-server or something like that >_<

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Re:Life at 800 MHz by hansel_der on Saturday January 15, 2022 @04:32AM (#29945109)
is good advice for any system not operated by a novice

  echo "APT { Install-Recommends \"false\"; }" >/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/90norecommendsthxby
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Re:Life at 800 MHz by sameerds on Saturday January 15, 2022 @06:13AM (#29945528)
Why is that not good advice for a novice too? I do this by reflex every time I install Debian or Ubuntu, and to my experience it did not create a situation that needed "expertise in apt".
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Re:Life at 800 MHz by mayli on Friday January 14, 2022 @04:30PM (#29940706)
due to depends on latex and friends.
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