Removing Zeitgeist

[Augustine Souza]

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 <dbyentzen at gmail.com> 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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