a 1.4 MB package recommended 230 MB of packages :|

[Lisi]

On Wednesday 14 April 2010 01:38:35 Tom H wrote:
> > A possible explanation is that an apt config file, of which I am unaware,
> > is in /home, which I retained (it was on a separate disk) and is from an
> > earlier installation, but I have altered nothing, neither before nor now.
>
> This explanation makes sense because a preference in your home
> directory would override elsewhere; so your install is not a default
> one ;)

No - but I have altered nothing myself, so if this be the case the behaviour 
must have been an earlier default.  And /home seems a strange place for apt 
to store its config files.

Lisi