Thanks for the additional info. I have: http://packages.ubuntu.com/saucy/lubuntu-desktop . I, too, feel zeitgeist came in as a recommend since after removing it from Lubuntu 13.10 ( as I have modified it as *my own* ) works fine. I already knew about apt-cache show...what I did not know was the last part about simulated apt-get install. Thanks, this will come in very handy in the future!
Best Regards, David Yentzen On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 7:59 PM, Augustine Souza <[email protected]>wrote: > David, couple of points ... > > I could be wrong here because I not an IT guy, but, in the context of your > question, something can be an "absolute" dependency or a "strong" > dependency (aka recommend). > > If something is an absolute dependency, you can't easily remove it without > removing the program that caused it to be pulled in (I think that's called > the reverse depend). So, in your case, if you've managed to remove > zeitgeist without pain I feel zeitgeist came in as a recommend and not as > an absolute dependency. > > Because you've said you'd like to "know exactly what is installed and what > it does", I suggest you look at: > http://packages.ubuntu.com/saucy/lubuntu-desktop. That should tell you > what is installed in a pure Lubuntu. > > Of course, you can replace saucy with raring or precise or whatever to go > back in time or you could change lubuntu to ubuntu or xubuntu to find out > more about those desktop environments. > > Then, you could also familiarize yourself with > apt-cache show package_name and > apt-cache showpkg package_name > to know more about specific packages and what their depends and reverse > depends are. > > Another thing I do is to run a simulated apt-get install by using the -s > flag: I can run > apt-get install -s package_name > to get a rather decent idea of what will be installed on **my** system > were I to do an actual install rather than a simulation. Obviously, the > output of apt-get install -s package_name will depend on what you already > have on **your** > system. > > On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 11:57 PM, David Yentzen <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Thanks for the input. I will have to go back and review where I picked it >> up as a dependency. Regardless at this point, I have first disabled it and >> then removed it without appearing to affect function. >> Thanks to you both for letting me know that it is not apart of the >> default install, this gives me a starting point. I like, very much, to know >> exactly what is installed and what it does. >> >> >
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