[xubuntu-users] Alternative display managers that work with 14.10

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Fri, 5 Dec 2014 18:41:06 +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 05, 2014 at 06:43:50PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> >        "--no-install-recommends
> >            Do not consider recommended packages as a dependency for
> >            installing. Configuration Item: APT::Install-Recommends."
> > 
> Yes, but that only eliminates the few 'recommended' packages at the
> bottom, there's still a huge pile of irrelevance (I make it 121
> packages) that do get installed as dependencies of gdm.

You enabled suggested packages ;), it's not a default for Debian/Ubuntu.

Disable it:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/179060/how-not-to-install-recommended-and-suggested-packages

Only disable "suggested"!

And run install with or without
--install-suggests
--no-install-recommends

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