Installing xfe on base Debian

[Daniel Wayne Armstrong]

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> At some point, installing 'recommended' packages became default.  In the
> past only requires packages were installed.  This can be changed in the
> configuration of apt though.  aptitude has it's own configuration as
> well for similar controls (including installing suggested packages if
> so desired).

Running 'aptitude -R install <package>' will drop the recommended
packages from the download. I discovered it when I wanted to install a
very basic Gnome for a friend and didn't want to install extras like
Evolution and substitute wicd vs network manager.

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