HOWTO: Use APT without the Bloat

Posted by Jeff91 on Nov 18, 2011 1:24 AM EDT
Thoughts on Technology; By Jeff Hoogland 		Mail this story
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For whatever reason a good deal of Debian packagers like to tack on a whole slew of "optional" dependencies to the packages they create. By default apt-get installs all of these extra dependencies on your computer. If you are like me and don't want all the extra bloat it is as simple as running apt-get with on extra argument.

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