Re: What else must I do to avoid installing "suggests"? Was: How to get a "minimal font set"?

2016-03-06 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sun, 06 Mar 2016, Kynn Jones wrote: > Thank you for all your comments and suggestions. > > My interest in this question stems from the fact that I'm getting > ready to do a full reinstallation of my system, and I don't want to > repeat my previous mistakes. > > My concern is that the

Re: What else must I do to avoid installing "suggests"? Was: How to get a "minimal font set"?

2016-03-06 Thread Linux-Fan
[Sun, 6 Mar 2016 12:12:20 -0500] Kynn Jones wrote: > Thank you for all your comments and suggestions. > > My interest in this question stems from the fact that I'm getting > ready to do a full reinstallation of my system, and I don't want to > repeat my previous mistakes. > >

Re: What else must I do to avoid installing "suggests"? Was: How to get a "minimal font set"?

2016-03-06 Thread Kynn Jones
Thank you for all your comments and suggestions. My interest in this question stems from the fact that I'm getting ready to do a full reinstallation of my system, and I don't want to repeat my previous mistakes. My concern is that the unwanted packages could have landed in my hard drive when the

Re: What else must I do to avoid installing "suggests"? Was: How to get a "minimal font set"?

2016-03-05 Thread Curt
On 2016-03-05, Siard wrote: > David Wright: >> David Christensen: >> > $ zcat /usr/share/doc/apt/examples/configure-index.gz | less >> >> I just write:less /usr/share/doc/apt/examples/configure-index.gz >> because I have: >> >> eval $(lesspipe) >> >> in my

Re: What else must I do to avoid installing "suggests"? Was: How to get a "minimal font set"?

2016-03-05 Thread Siard
David Wright: > David Christensen: > > $ zcat /usr/share/doc/apt/examples/configure-index.gz | less > > I just write:less /usr/share/doc/apt/examples/configure-index.gz > because I have: > > eval $(lesspipe) > > in my ~/.bashrc Third option: use zless.

Re: What else must I do to avoid installing "suggests"? Was: How to get a "minimal font set"?

2016-03-05 Thread Brian
On Fri 04 Mar 2016 at 09:59:54 -0500, Kynn Jones wrote: > What else do I have to do to avoid having all these suggested packages > somehow get through to my system? You don't have to do anything. Neither apt-get nor aptitude installs a suggested package by default. In fact, apt-get ignores the

Re: What else must I do to avoid installing "suggests"? Was: How to get a "minimal font set"?

2016-03-04 Thread David Christensen
On 03/04/2016 09:10 PM, David Wright wrote: I just write:less /usr/share/doc/apt/examples/configure-index.gz because I have: eval $(lesspipe) in my ~/.bashrc Okay: $ man lessfile $ man lesspipe David

Re: What else must I do to avoid installing "suggests"? Was: How to get a "minimal font set"?

2016-03-04 Thread David Wright
On Fri 04 Mar 2016 at 20:41:25 (-0800), David Christensen wrote: > On 03/04/2016 06:14 PM, Joel Roth wrote: > >cat /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/40nosuggestrecommends > >Apt::Install-Suggests false; > >Apt::Install-Recommends false; > > Thanks for the tip -- I was wondering if there was a configuration >

Re: What else must I do to avoid installing "suggests"? Was: How to get a "minimal font set"?

2016-03-04 Thread David Wright
On Fri 04 Mar 2016 at 23:15:28 (-0500), Bob Bernstein wrote: > On Fri, 4 Mar 2016, Joel Roth wrote: > > >cat /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/40nosuggestrecommends > >Apt::Install-Suggests false; > >Apt::Install-Recommends false; > > Nice. Done. Thanks. > > I had reason a couple of nights ago to consult

Re: What else must I do to avoid installing "suggests"? Was: How to get a "minimal font set"?

2016-03-04 Thread David Christensen
On 03/04/2016 06:14 PM, Joel Roth wrote: cat /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/40nosuggestrecommends Apt::Install-Suggests false; Apt::Install-Recommends false; Thanks for the tip -- I was wondering if there was a configuration setting somewhere: $ man apt.conf $ zcat

Re: What else must I do to avoid installing "suggests"? Was: How to get a "minimal font set"?

2016-03-04 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Fri, 4 Mar 2016, Joel Roth wrote: cat /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/40nosuggestrecommends Apt::Install-Suggests false; Apt::Install-Recommends false; Nice. Done. Thanks. I had reason a couple of nights ago to consult 'man apt-get' because it seemed that lots of "suggested" pkgs were being

Re: What else must I do to avoid installing "suggests"? Was: How to get a "minimal font set"?

2016-03-04 Thread Joel Roth
On Fri, Mar 04, 2016 at 04:59:03PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: > On 03/04/2016 06:59 AM, Kynn Jones wrote: > >IOW, I have a ton of junk in my system, not just superfluous fonts. > > > >How can this be, given that I never use the `--install-suggests` flag > >when I run `apt-get install`, and I

Re: What else must I do to avoid installing "suggests"? Was: How to get a "minimal font set"?

2016-03-04 Thread David Christensen
On 03/04/2016 06:59 AM, Kynn Jones wrote: IOW, I have a ton of junk in my system, not just superfluous fonts. How can this be, given that I never use the `--install-suggests` flag when I run `apt-get install`, and I don't have `Item: APT::Install-Suggests` in my `/etc/apt/apt.conf`? I must

Re: What else must I do to avoid installing "suggests"? Was: How to get a "minimal font set"?

2016-03-04 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Fri, 04 Mar 2016, Kynn Jones wrote: > On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 11:03 AM, Stefan Monnier > wrote: > >> Find a file somehow belonging to the font you are interested in. > >> Do "dpkg -L " on it. > >^^ > >-S > > Thank you, that is a useful tool. >

Re: What else must I do to avoid installing "suggests"? Was: How to get a "minimal font set"?

2016-03-04 Thread Linux-Fan
[Fri, 4 Mar 2016 09:59:54 -0500] Kynn Jones wrote: [...] > When I ran `dpkg -S` over all the files reported by `fc-list`, and > then ran `aptitude why` on the reported packages, I discovered that > most of the superfluous fonts in my system came through packages that > were

Re: What else must I do to avoid installing "suggests"? Was: How to get a "minimal font set"?

2016-03-04 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Mar 04, 2016 at 09:59:54AM -0500, Kynn Jones wrote: > On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 11:03 AM, Stefan Monnier > wrote: > >> Find a file somehow belonging to the font you are interested in. > >> Do "dpkg -L " on it. > >

What else must I do to avoid installing "suggests"? Was: How to get a "minimal font set"?

2016-03-04 Thread Kynn Jones
On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 11:03 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> Find a file somehow belonging to the font you are interested in. >> Do "dpkg -L " on it. >^^ >-S Thank you, that is a useful tool. When I ran `dpkg -S` over all the files reported by

Re: How to get a "minimal font set"?

2016-03-01 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 11:03:28AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Find a file somehow belonging to the font you are interested in. > > Do "dpkg -L " on it. >^^ >-S Oops. Right. Thanks. - -- t -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: How to get a "minimal font set"?

2016-03-01 Thread Curt
On 2016-03-01, wrote: > > Woah. Abogado loco sure sounds like fun ;-) > > Find a file somehow belonging to the font you are interested in. > Do "dpkg -L " on it. Or run rapt-file (but that would oblige you to install apt-file and bloat the system further).

Re: How to get a "minimal font set"?

2016-03-01 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Find a file somehow belonging to the font you are interested in. > Do "dpkg -L " on it. ^^ -S -- Stefan

Re: How to get a "minimal font set"?

2016-03-01 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 10:14:28AM -0500, Kynn Jones wrote: > Even though I've tried hard to keep my system minimal, it somehow > ended up with way too many fonts, none of which I explicitly > installed. These include outlandish stuff like "El

How to get a "minimal font set"?

2016-03-01 Thread Kynn Jones
Even though I've tried hard to keep my system minimal, it somehow ended up with way too many fonts, none of which I explicitly installed. These include outlandish stuff like "El Abogado Loco", "Wargames", and "Vemana2000"... How is this not bloat? How can I reduced the fonts available in my