gdm3 is being pulled in via a "Recommends" chain. Disabling recommends will
avoid it[*].
On my groovy system it reduced new packages installed from 452/291MB of
archives to 56/165MB of archives. Seems like the right thing to do for at least
--gpgpu installs - but maybe for all?
[*]
--- /usr/bin/ubuntu-drivers.orig 2020-07-29 15:24:08.000000000 +0000
+++ /usr/bin/ubuntu-drivers 2020-10-06 19:18:53.208559657 +0000
@@ -155,7 +155,8 @@
return
ret = subprocess.call(['apt-get', 'install', '-o',
- 'DPkg::options::=--force-confnew', '-y'] + to_install)
+ 'DPkg::options::=--force-confnew', '-y',
+ '--no-install-recommends'] + to_install)
oem_meta_to_install = fnmatch.filter(to_install, 'oem-*-meta')
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'ubuntu-drivers --gpgpu install' installs a lot of unnecessary
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