<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Thanks for the additional info. I have: <a href="http://packages.ubuntu.com/saucy/lubuntu-desktop">http://packages.ubuntu.com/saucy/lubuntu-desktop</a> . I, too, feel zeitgeist came in as a recommend since after removing it from Lubuntu 13.10 ( as I have modified it as *my own* ) works fine. I already knew about apt-cache show...what I did not know was the last part about simulated apt-get install. Thanks, this will come in very handy in the future! <br>
<br></div>Best Regards,<br></div>David Yentzen <br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 7:59 PM, Augustine Souza <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aesouza2008@gmail.com" target="_blank">aesouza2008@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">David, couple of points ...<div><br></div><div>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). <br>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">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.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Because you've said you'd like to "know exactly what is installed and what it does", I suggest you look at:</div><div class="gmail_extra"><a href="http://packages.ubuntu.com/saucy/lubuntu-desktop" target="_blank">http://packages.ubuntu.com/saucy/lubuntu-desktop</a>. That should tell you what is installed in a pure Lubuntu.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">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.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Then, you could also familiarize yourself with </div><div class="gmail_extra">apt-cache show package_name and </div><div class="gmail_extra">apt-cache showpkg package_name </div>
<div class="gmail_extra">to know more about specific packages and what their depends and reverse depends are.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Another thing I do is to run a simulated apt-get install by using the -s flag: I can run </div>
<div class="gmail_extra">apt-get install -s package_name </div><div class="gmail_extra">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**</div>
<div class="gmail_extra">system.</div><div class="im"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 11:57 PM, David Yentzen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dbyentzen@gmail.com" target="_blank">dbyentzen@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>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.<br>
</div>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.<br><br></div></div></div></blockquote>
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